Union warns against unqualified staff at Ballydowd
The warning comes ahead of today's recruitment open day at Dublin's troubled Ballydowd facility, a unit that remains badly underused nearly two years after it opened.
An open day was organised in a bid to attract staff to work in the 24-bed unit. The South Western Area Health Board has admitted major difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff, the lack of whom means that less than a third of the 24 beds are in use at any given time.
