IT will be impossible to deliver the Government’s mental health reform programme without an easing of the nurses’ recruitment ban, Minister of State with responsibility for mental health, John Maloney said yesterday.

UP to 17% of tasks carried out by junior doctors involve “finding stuff and paperwork” and 15% are either non-medical or could be done by a less-skilled hospital worker, a survey has found.

THE last doctor to see John Carthy alive found him eager to return to work and get on with his life after coming through a renewed bout of manic depression.

A DOCTOR who examined John Carthy after an alleged assault at his local garda station found tenderness around his upper neck.