Growing demand sees psychiatric services extended at university

Growing demand for student psychiatric services will see a clinic provided for five extra weeks a year at Maynooth University.

Up to a dozen of its 11,000-plus students attend each weekly one-day clinic currently provided, where a consultant psychiatrist assesses and treats students referred to the service.

Growing demand saw the service increased from a half-day to one day a week in 2011. However, further demand means the university wants the contracted service to run for five extra weeks in the next academic year.