Mental health: a forgotten scandal

IF YOU want an emotive image to portray the Irish health service, the chances are that you are going to wheel a trolley into your argument.

Nothing raises the ire of people more than hearing of patients spending days in hospital A&E units on chairs or trolleys.

Nobody’s every going to deny that that type of situation is unacceptable. But this one component of the health service seems to dominate debate. Without diminishing the problem, it’s like giving out that the spare tyre is flat while ignoring the fact that somebody has nicked the four wheels.