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Health Strikes in the North: Defending Workers’ Pay and the NHS

February 15, 2023 Tanya Killen, General Council NIPSA and Branch Secretary (Both personal capacity)

With widespread discontent and anger over pay, safe staffing and mileage reimbursement, health service unions in Northern Ireland – NIPSA and UNISON -commenced industrial action on 5 December 2022. Action initially commenced with ongoing work […]

Ireland-South

CAMHS closures – mental health services in crisis

June 7, 2022 Carah Daniel

The news of the closure of 11 beds at the Linn Dara unit of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) marks the latest failure of the state in relation to mental health. The […]

Health

Budget ’22 fails to address mental health crisis

October 22, 2021 Carah Daniel

Last week, we saw an allocation of €37 million toward mental health in Budget 2022. This falls far short of the type of funding that is needed and will mean very little if the severe […]

Health

Eating disorders scandal grows

June 21, 2021 Alice Richardson

Every fifty-two minutes somebody dies of an eating disorder, proving eating disorders to have the highest mortality rate of any other recognised psychiatric illness. In the last decade we have seen people within lower and […]

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