There is frustration after Letterkenny University Hospital was overlooked from the rollout of 10 specialist mental health nursing teams across the country.<\/p>\n
Minister for Mental Health, Mary Butler TD announced the commencement of recruitment for the teams that will, according to the announcement, \u201cstrengthen crisis supports out-of-hours in emergency departments across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recruitment is now progressing, with the Health Service Executive (HSE) and hospital management working to have the new teams operational as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
The 10 hospitals who will receive a new team of four – two advanced nurse practitioners and two clinical nurse specialists – are: Tallaght University Hospital; St James’s Hospital; Mater Hospital; Beaumont Hospital; St Vincent’s University Hospital; Waterford University Hospital; University Hospital Limerick; Cork University Hospital; Mercy University Hospital; and University Hospital Galway.<\/p>\n
\u201cLetterkenny University Hospital is a major hospital and the only one in Donegal,\u201d Letterkenny-based Sinn F\u00e9in Councillor Gerry McMonagle told Donegal Daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Councillor McMonagle is the Vice Chair of the Regional Health Forum West and North West.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe amount of times that Letterkenny hospital is in the top three for being overcrowded in the emergency department and with people waiting on beds, we would need that psychiatric support.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at the last Garda statistics, there were significant increases in the amount of people being detained under the Mental Health Act. There is no weekend cover for psychiatric supports in Letterkenny – which is one of the busiest model 3 hospitals in the country – and I would have thought that we would have been considered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something that has been raised regularly about psychiatric intervention at the ED. While we do have some sort of response when people present with mental health issues, we don\u2019t at the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is frustration after Letterkenny University Hospital was overlooked from the rollout of 10 specialist mental health nursing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-542029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}