HSE admits no EDs meet minimum self-harm staffing levels

In response to a parliamentary question by Sinn Féin spokesperson on mental health Mark Ward, the HSE said none of its hospitals is staffed to the projected minimum standard. File picture: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

No emergency departments currently meet the minimum level of staffing for people presenting with self-harm.

A HSE response to a parliamentary question by Sinn Féin spokesperson on mental health Mark Ward says that while a number of hospitals across the country have a liaison psychiatry service, none is staffed to the level set out in A Vision For Change, the national mental health strategy.