HSE refutes TD’s claims about home help services in Sligo/Leitrim
The HSE has refuted a claim by a Sligo/Leitrim TD that home help hours have been ‘slashed’ by almost 10,000 hours over the past year. In a statement to Ocean FM, the HSE says budgeted home help hours for Sligo/Leitrim have actually increased this year. Fianna Fail Deputy Eamon Scanlon…
New Sligo/Leitrim CAMHS psychiatrist is fulltime . . . but not permanent
The Health Service Executive has confirmed that a consultant psychiatrist who started work yesterday with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in the region is not permanent. The HSE says it’s a ‘locum’ position. Yesterday, a second psychiatrist started work with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in…
HSE confirms south Donegal respite services resume on a phased basis
The HSE has confirmed that respite services at Seaview House on the Mountcharles road in Donegal have resumed on a phased basis this week. In a statement to Ocean FM today, the HSE says staff shortages due to illness, leave and retirement forced them to scale back the service in…
HSE says Carrigans Day Centre in North Sligo has reopened
The HSE says the Carrigans Day Centre in Maugherow reopened yesterday, Wednesday. Earlier this week, Sinn Fein Councillor Thomas Healy said elderly people who attend the centre in North Sligo were told on a number of recent occasions that it would not be open on the morning they planned to…
HSE responds to TD’s comments on hospital unit
The HSE has responded to a statement from a Sligo/Leitrim Dail Deputy in which he described conditions at a unit in St John’s Hospital in Sligo last November as ‘shameful.’ Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny was commenting after the Mental Health Commission published the final Inspection Report for the Rehabilitation…
More needed than one part-time psychiatrist for North West
A Sinn Fein councillor says a part-time psychiatrist is not nearly enough to cover the needs of those seeking help in the North West. Families and public representatives in the North West met with the HSE earlier this week to discuss ongoing fears over CAMHS services in the region. Cutbacks…
HSE confirms investigations underway into two more farm fatalities
The Health and Safety Authority is investigating the 3rd tragic farm fatality in under a week. Two more tragedies have been confirmed today and it follows the a death in Arigna, Co Roscommon at the weekend. A man in his 20s died in a quad accident in Wexford today while…