Recruitment for Kerry's mental health service 'a disaster' as nurses left 'languishing on panels'

Donie Doody of Siptu said there was a real risk that some of the nurses on the Kerry panels would emigrate and find work elsewhere.

Kerry's mental health service is recruiting newly qualified nurses who are then being left “languishing on panels” at a time when the sector is under huge pressure, the union representing mental health nurses has claimed.

In Kerry, there was a long tradition of mental health nursing and attracting new recruits to the sector is not a problem, according to Donie Doody of Siptu.