FF: Minister must deal with suicide crisis

The Government is being urged to listen to the advice of frontline staff who hve expressed serious concern over the clinical management of the Carlow-Kilkenny / South Tipperary mental health services.

The Government is being urged to listen to the advice of frontline staff who have expressed serious concern over the clinical management of the Carlow-Kilkenny / South Tipperary mental health services.

It emerged at the weekend that nine consultant psychiatrists withdrew confidence in the clinical management of the mental health services there, in a letter to Minister with responsibility for mental health Kathleen Lynch last year.