:quality(70):focal(3180x1978:3190x1988)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SRCJ5ZTGONDVNJLQP6FXWKLYTE.JPG "‘This isn’t working. We have to shout stop’: Inspector of mental health services says standards not being met")
The State’s inspector of mental services, Prof Jim Lucey, is speaking about taxation and learning to drive. It would not be good enough, he says, to...
:quality(70):focal(2438x910:2448x920)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/Q5DK43JA45H6XD63FMMJAHZROM.JPG "Patients in mental distress safer in community than in most specialised treatment centres, watchdog says")
Patients in acute mental distress are safer in the community than in most specialised mental health treatment centres due to the dilapidated state of the facilities,...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/W2C2PLDVABDNTOWEEADPOLCRBQ.jpg "Psychiatric nurses vote overwhelmingly for industrial action over staffing")
Psychiatric nurses have served notice of industrial action on the HSE in a dispute over staff shortages across the country’s mental health services and hospitals. In...