Hospital facing Christmas staff crisis
Psychiatric nurses protested for 90 minutes yesterday afternoon at St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny and University Hospital Waterford to highlight ongoing overcrowding and a staffing crisis faced by patients at the two acute mental health admission units.
Members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) are demanding the provision of new and expanded community services, a more rigorous management of beds, long-stay beds, and “an end to understaffing to address the crisis in services in the Kilkenny and Waterford region”.
