Nurses urged to accept new psych ward at Cork University Hospital

With plans to open an acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital running five months behind schedule, a senior HSE manager has issued a plea to nursing staff to transfer to the new facility.

Gretta Crowley, HSE operations manager at Cork mental health services, said it was in the interest of staff and patients to “get the unit open”.

She said: “Our main focus is on getting the unit open and we are appealing to staff to co-operate with the move. We would like staff to work with us on the basis that we have respected the industrial relations process at all times.”