# mental-health-services - Thursday 10 September, 2020
# World Suicide Prevention Day
# World Suicide Prevention Day
On World Suicide Prevention Day our reader details her struggles and experience of the Irish mental health services.
# mental-health-services - Sunday 13 October, 2019
# One-stop Shop
# One-stop Shop
The Your Mental Health information line can be reached on 1800 742 444.
# mental-health-services - Tuesday 23 July, 2019
# Mental Health Services
# Mental Health Services
Fianna Fáil TD James Browne said the overtime ban will lead to service disruption and cancellations for patients.
# mental-health-services - Thursday 11 July, 2019
# Mental Health Services
# Mental Health Services
As of 7am this morning, psychiatric nurses have not been carrying out work beyond their contracted hours.
# mental-health-services - Sunday 30 September, 2018
# Mental Health Services
# Mental Health Services
Close to €13 million was spent in the first three months of this year on agency staff.
# mental-health-services - Friday 27 July, 2018
# Mental Health Services
# Mental Health Services
“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?”
# mental-health-services - Saturday 30 September, 2017
# Assessment
# Assessment
Some €70 million in funding was announced over 2015-2016.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
# Mental Health Services
# Mental Health Services
There are 6,000 children waiting for primary care psychology appointments, the Dáil was told today.
# mental-health-services - Sunday 10 September, 2017
# Take Action
# Take Action
It’s World Suicide Prevention Day today. Here’s what events are happening to mark it.
# mental-health-services - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
# Failings
# Failings
A report was was commissioned into the services after allegations of sexual exploitation at one of its facilities.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 16 August, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
If we’re going to ask people to talk up, then we must have people to listen, writes Una Power.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
An emotive letter from a concerned mother was read in the Dail today by Independent TD Mick Wallace.
# mental-health-services - Sunday 15 May, 2016
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
TheJournal.ie speaks to three young people living with mental health conditions.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 27 April, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck does a double take on some claims that went viral last night.
# mental-health-services - Monday 18 April, 2016
# Diversionary Tactic
# Diversionary Tactic
The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and Mental Health Reform have expressed their “dismay”.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 22 July, 2015
# Self Harm
# Self Harm
The state’s mental health watchdog has found training for mental health service providers was inadequate.
# mental-health-services - Monday 15 June, 2015
# GP Care
# GP Care
There has been an office in place to administer the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive since February.
# mental-health-services - Thursday 16 April, 2015
# Mental Health Services
# Mental Health Services
An area of University Hospital Waterford was found to have “no seating area, no dining facility and no walkabout space”.
# mental-health-services - Saturday 29 November, 2014
# Funding
# Funding
The Mental Health Minister said occasionally wards would be full when beds were free.
# mental-health-services - Friday 31 October, 2014
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
There was a vacancy in a children’s ward, but staff were unaware of it.
# mental-health-services - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
# Listen Up
# Listen Up
The pop-up radio station is live all this week.
# mental-health-services - Tuesday 30 September, 2014
# Causes
# Causes
A previous report found that 25% of deaths had not been reported correctly.
# mental-health-services - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
# Vision For Change
# Vision For Change
The Inspectorate of Mental Health Services found some of the hostels “too big”.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 25 December, 2013
# Outreach
# Outreach
A controlled trial saw that a small investment led to big benefits for building confidence and reducing isolation.
# mental-health-services - Thursday 18 October, 2012
# Discrimination
# Discrimination
The survey showed 34 per cent believe they had been avoided or shunned because of their mental health problems.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
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.
# mental-health-services - Friday 5 August, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# mental-health-services - Thursday 9 September, 2010
# Health Fail
# Health Fail
Highest portion budget deficit recorded at HSE West.
# mental-health-services - Wednesday 11 August, 2010
# HSE Fail
# HSE Fail
20% of psychiatric nurses have retired.
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