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The Taoiseach said earlier that the findings will be addressed in a “non-adversarial way”.
The Mental Health Commission has said that there is no therapeutic benefit to restraints.
On World Suicide Prevention Day our reader details her struggles and experience of the Irish mental health services.
The Your Mental Health information line can be reached on 1800 742 444.
Fianna Fáil TD James Browne said the overtime ban will lead to service disruption and cancellations for patients.
As of 7am this morning, psychiatric nurses have not been carrying out work beyond their contracted hours.
Close to €13 million was spent in the first three months of this year on agency staff.
“There are plenty of people in the same situation as me. Many are even worse off. Don’t we deserve the chance to get better?”
Some €70 million in funding was announced over 2015-2016.
There are 6,000 children waiting for primary care psychology appointments, the Dáil was told today.
It’s World Suicide Prevention Day today. Here’s what events are happening to mark it.
A report was was commissioned into the services after allegations of sexual exploitation at one of its facilities.
If we’re going to ask people to talk up, then we must have people to listen, writes Una Power.
An emotive letter from a concerned mother was read in the Dail today by Independent TD Mick Wallace.
TheJournal.ie speaks to three young people living with mental health conditions.
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck does a double take on some claims that went viral last night.
The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and Mental Health Reform have expressed their “dismay”.
The state’s mental health watchdog has found training for mental health service providers was inadequate.
There has been an office in place to administer the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive since February.
An area of University Hospital Waterford was found to have “no seating area, no dining facility and no walkabout space”.
The Mental Health Minister said occasionally wards would be full when beds were free.
There was a vacancy in a children’s ward, but staff were unaware of it.
The pop-up radio station is live all this week.
A previous report found that 25% of deaths had not been reported correctly.
The Inspectorate of Mental Health Services found some of the hostels “too big”.
A controlled trial saw that a small investment led to big benefits for building confidence and reducing isolation.
The survey showed 34 per cent believe they had been avoided or shunned because of their mental health problems.
Suicidology organisation’s president and TD does concede that high rate of suicide among unemployed linked to those with psychiatric illness being less likely to have a job.
Locking people alone in rooms isn’t a treatment for mental illness – so why are we still doing it, asks Orla Barry of Mental Health Reform.