6,000 psychiatric nurses will begin industrial action this evening.

Industrial action by psychiatric nurses will have “a very significant impact” on vulnerable patients across the country, the HSE has warned.

Industrial action by psychiatric nurses will have “a very significant impact” on vulnerable patients across the country, the HSE has warned.

An overtime ban involving 6,000 psychiatric nurses will restart from Wednesday.

Ambulance workers from the Psychiatric Nurses Association say they have been left with no choice but to go on strike.

The country's psychiatric nurses have deferred their industrial action.

6,000 members of the Psychiatric Nurses' Association will begin an overtime ban today over a dispute with the HSE.

A series of protests are taking place across Ireland today in support of striking ambulance workers.

Three Munster-based acute public hospitals were worst affected by overcrowding in May, it has emerged.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) maintains that the recognition of other trade unions except Siptu, which represents frontline staff, would undermine work relations.

A 24-hour long strike is to be held by more than 500 ambulance personnel nationwide on Friday in an ongoing row over union recognition.

Psychiatric nurses have been offered a new pay contract with the HSE.

PNA General Secretary Peter Hughes says it is hard to understand how the HSE solution to the ongoing staffing row is to order a new embargo on recruitment.

Mental health services are at crisis point as staffing shortages are expected to worsen, a psychiatric watchdog has warned.

Ambulance personnel nationwide are to go on strike for 24 hours in a further escalation of a row over union representation with the HSE.

Ambulance workers will hold a fifth day of industrial action at stations across the country today.

Up to 500 ambulance staff nationwide are to hold a fifth strike tomorrow in a stand-off with the HSE over their right to be represented by a trade union of their choice.

Evelyn Ring Post-natal care for mothers in the country’s maternity hospitals is not up to standard because of staff shortages, a maternity care expert has said .

Post-natal care for mothers in the country's maternity hospitals is not up to standard because of staff shortages, a maternity care expert has claimed.

Ambulance personnel from the Psychiatric Nurses Association have announced plans to hold a protest outside the Dáil later this month.

Nurses working in the acute mental health unit (AMHU) at Cork University Hospital (CUH) are considering industrial action in protest at being asked to triage patients who present out-of-hours.

Further ambulance strikes are likely if the HSE continues to refuse to recognise the right of more than 500 personnel to be represented by the union of their choice, the Psychiatric Nurses Association has warned.

A two-day strike by ambulance personnel members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association gets underway this morning.

A two-day strike tomorrow and Friday by ambulance personnel belonging to the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA), which is in dispute with the HSE over union recognition, will be going ahead.

More than 500 ambulance service personnel belonging to the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) will be on strike again today as the dispute over trade union representation rights intensifies.

Talks between the Psychiatric Nurses Association(PNA) and HSE bosses have ended for the night.

The Labour Court is to examine the nurses strike this morning, in an effort to avert widespread disruption to the health service next week.

The impact on tens of thousands of patients of escalating unrest in the health service continues today with members of the public asked not to use out of hours GP services as hundreds of family doctors gather in Dublin for a protest.

The INMO, the HSE and government officials spent eight hours at the negotiations, which ended shortly before 1am this morning.

With just over a week to the nurses' strike, their representative organisations have referred the dispute to the Workplace Relations Commission.

Talks between nursing unions and the HSE, in a bid to avert strike action by nurses, have ended with an agreement to meet again on Monday.

The health service faces severe disruption in the new year after nurses voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and staff shortages.

Two nursing unions are set to ballot 46,000 members for strike action next week over concerns that pay is too low to recruit and retain staff.

A union representing ambulance crews says a dispute with the HSE is exposing the problems faced by the service.

The Taoiseach has called on hospital consultants and nurses to cancel Christmas leave to stave off pending chaos in hospital emergency departments.

Staff have been told to “flush the toilets” in a new state-of-the-art residential mental health facility after complaining of strong smells of sewage type gases.

A crisis is looming at University Hospital Waterford over Christmas as up to 100 shifts will have no staff cover, it has been claimed.

A Seanad report laying bare the underfunded state of children’s mental health services has been welcomed by support groups who said its recommendations must be implemented.

Radon gas barriers were breached in a state-of-the-art mental health facility in Co Kerry which opened in July, the HSE confirmed.

Bad behaviour was normalised and then perpetrated by staff across Roscommon mental health services, a damning report has found.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association says it is shocked by the findings of a damning report on mental health services in Roscommon.

A €13m, purpose-built mental health unit for long-term psychiatric patients opens in Co Kerry today but nurses’ unions are warning that a low skill model of staff ratio and failure to reach levels of experienced staff will lead to more assaults on nurses.

Talks will take place today between the HSE and the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) in an effort to avert the closure of half the beds in the country’s newest inpatient unit for children with mental health disorders.

Doctors, nurses, and midwives have accused the Government of taking an “ostrich approach” to the staffing crisis in hospitals, community and mental health services.