Mental Health Reform, the national coalition on mental health, has today (20/07/2015) urged Government to keep its Programme for Government commitment to mental health when finalising Budget 2016 and invest €35 million to develop community-based mental health services. Shari McDaid, Director of Mental Health Reform, said: “If this Government wants to leave a legacy of … Read more
Mental Health Reform, the national coalition on mental health, has welcomed the new Suicide Prevention Strategy ‘Connecting for Life’, which was launched today (24/06/2015) by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Primary and Social Care Kathleen Lynch. Shari McDaid, Director of Mental Health Reform, said: “We welcome the comments from An Taoiseach Enda Kenny … Read more
Mental Health Reform, the national coalition on mental health, has welcomed the new Suicide Prevention Strategy ‘Connecting for Life’, which was launched today (24/06/2015) by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Primary and Social Care Kathleen Lynch. Shari McDaid, Director of Mental Health Reform, said: “We welcome the comments from An Taoiseach Enda Kenny … Read more
Mental Health Reform has today (22/06/2015) welcomed the recommendation by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that implementation of the Government’s mental health policy A Vision for Change be expedited through the allocation of sufficient resources for mental health services. The Committee was giving its concluding observations in response to the third … Read more
Mental Health Reform has today (22/06/2015) welcomed the recommendation by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that implementation of the Government’s mental health policy A Vision for Change be expedited through the allocation of sufficient resources for mental health services. The Committee was giving its concluding observations in response to the third … Read more
New mental health rules needed Sir – Emer O’Kelly’s article (Sunday Independent, 7 June) suggests that calls to reduce the use of powerful psychotropic drugs to control challenging behaviour of people with severe mental health conditions and people with an intellectual disability is an unrealistic ideal, due to lack of resources. Such a position is … Read more
Mental Health Reform has today (03/06/2015) described implementation of the national mental health policy A Vision for Change after nine years as “incomplete and uneven”, despite pockets of innovation. Dr Shari McDaid, Director of Mental Health Reform, said: “This report acknowledges the progress that has been made and the staff whose commitment has helped to … Read more
Mental Health Reform has today (25/04/2015) welcomed the commitment by Minister of State for Primary and Social Care Kathleen Lynch TD to remove the word ‘unwilling’ in relation to electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) in the consent section of the Mental Health Act 2001. Speaking at a mental health conference in Cork organised by the Centre for … Read more
Amnesty International Ireland and Mental Health Reform, the national coalition on mental health, have together (05/03/2015) welcomed the publication by Minister for Primary and Social Care, Kathleen Lynch TD, of the Report of the Expert Group on the Review of the Mental Health Act 2001. Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland, said: “Amnesty … Read more
In case you missed it, this is the article we had published in the Irish Times last month. Homeless people with mental health difficulties need more than key in the door Shari McDaid First published: Mon, Jan 12, 2015, 00:01 My office sits in the shadows of the now closed St Brendan’s Hospital, Grangegorman, which … Read more