Ambulance personnel from North West in Dublin protest today
Ambulance personnel from the north west who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) will be taking part in a protest at Leinster House today. It’s part of their campaign in a continuing dispute with the HSE over what they insist is their right to be represented and recognised…
PNA members in two-day ambulance strike
About 600 ambulance personnel from the Psychiatric Nurses Association are starting a two-day strike. It will last from from 7am to 5pm today and tomorrow. In the north west, today’s action involves about 240 staff; they include paramedics as well as emergency medical technicians. They are members of the National…
PNA could extend industrial action to North West
Industrial action by members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association could be escalated to include health facilities across the north west region next week. There are currently 120 members of the PNA working in hospitals and facilities in Sligo, Leitrim and South Donegal. Over 6-thousand members of the association in certain…
PNA: Young people need to be able to access Mental Health Services faster
The Psychiatric Nurses Association is calling on the HSE to bring in new measures to allow faster access to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The calls come in response to new figures showing an increase in the number of children and young people waiting over a year to…