Search Results for 'mental health services'

Easter party for aware

The HSE West has got the go-ahead to provide additional psychology services through a locum.

A young city woman who has severe depression and anxiety, and is on a waiting list to attend a psychologist on the public health system, fears that lives will be lost as already pressurised local mental health services come under further strain.

Campaign groups have vowed to continue their fight to maintain psychiatric beds at St Brigid’s Hospital in Ballinasloe, after a motion aimed at saving the 22-bed psychiatric unit was defeated in the Seanad on Wednesday.

A successful personal developement programme designed initially to help the homeless in Galway is now available to the public.

As the Seanad debated the removal of psychiatric beds from mental health units, including St Brigid’s Hospital in Ballinasloe, campaign groups vowed to continue their fight until an independent review is granted.

The long-awaited opening of Clonbrusk Primary Care Centre is due to take place this Monday February 17.

Political pressure must be put on the HSE West to review its decision that all new mental health patients from Ballinasloe must now attend the psychiatric unit at University Hospital Galway, a former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum insists.

Psychiatric services in Westmeath are to benefit from the addition of eight senior staff this year, it was revealed this week.

The HSE in Mayo has launched a new directory of all of the mental health services and supports available in the county.