The Irish Medical Organisation is expected to criticise criteria for involuntary admission, timing of patients’ psychosocial assessment, and care plan regulations ...

The Health Service Executive has said agreement has been reached with health unions on the introduction of an extended working day and week in the HSE and HSE funded agencies.

Under the new system, senior consultants and other staff including social workers, therapists and administrative staff, will be rostered to work five over seven days. The number of staff working ...

Thousands who now work Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, will move to working five days across a seven-day roster Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the plans are 'a major, major reform' which ...

The HSE has reach an agreement with health trade unions around the provision of services across a seven day week, which it hopes will reduce waiting lists and address the overcrowding crisis faced by ...

The new national €2.24bn children’s hospital will have to turn away children in mental distress and self harming who are aged 16 and 17, who will have to attend an adult emergency department ...

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The proposed new Mental Health Bill could deny patients with serious mental illness the right to timely and often life-saving medical treatment, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) will tell ...

To discuss this, guest host Jonathan Healy is joined by Kevin Figgis, Divisional Head of SIPTU Health Division and Matthew Sadlier, Consultant Psychiatrist and Chair of the IMO’s Consultants ...