The Psychiatric Nurses’ Association has claimed that senior HSE management can’t be allowed to be part of any group implementing recommendations contained in the Roscommon mental health review.
The report, published earlier this month, was highly critical of various aspects of the mental health service in the county, including highlighting issues over finance, and problems in the relationship between several top-level managers.
The PNA claims that after a number of meetings in recent weeks, its members are seriously concerned about how some of the same managers identified in the report could also now be part of the body tasked with implementing the recommendations in the report.
General secretary of the nursing union Peter Hughes claims any proposed implementation group must be independently chaired and must also include a staff representative.
He has also called on the HSE to return the nearly €18 million unspent on the mental health service in the county to be pumped back into the system.
