mental health services
Dr Anne Doherty, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Mater Hospital, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCD and chair of the Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry at the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland writes for TheJournal.ie about how emergency departments are drowning under the additional pressure of increased mental healthcare need during COVID-19. Read excerpts from the […]
Dr Mary Kelly, Consultant Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disability and Dr Maria Dunne, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, this week wrote to The Irish Times to highlight the continuing closure of respite and day services for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unable to access these vital programmes, and without their normal routines and social […]
Vulnerable groups with mental illness and neurodevelopment conditions need extra guidance, support and flexibility in how services and treatments are delivered in these extraordinary circumstances, highlights the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. It is vital that people with these conditions continue to engage with their mental health practitioners and services during this Coronavirus outbreak period. […]
Writing in the Irish Times, this opinion piece by Brendan Kelly highlights some shocking statistics on the nation’s mental health, and provides a clear and urgent call for change to the systems through which people seek medical help. You can read the full piece, published on the Irish Times website on Tuesday 10th December 2019, […]
Mental health charity A Lust for Life has brought together some of the best and brightest minds in Ireland’s mental health sector to ask: why is our mental health system so dysfunctional? Who is responsible for fixing it? And what can we, collectively, do to create long-term, systemic change? The six part podcast series podcast […]