Mental health nurses ‘going unreplaced’

MENTAL health services are “haemorrhaging” personnel, the Mental Health Commission has warned.

Mental health nurses ‘going unreplaced’

In some areas 20% of nurses had left and had not been replaced due to a moratorium on recruitment, the MHC said.

The commission said the losses were happening at a time when services were experiencing an increased demand because of the economic recession.

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