Psychiatric nurses have voted in favor of industrial action, including strikes, due to the ongoing recruitment freeze preventing mental health services from hiring staff. The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has issued the HSE with a three-week notice of impending industrial action. This decision comes as there are over 700 vacancies in mental health services, impacting care delivery and frontline services. The HSE argues that the number of psychiatric nurses has increased despite the freeze and promises to offer positions to all 2024 graduate psychiatric nurses. The PNA emphasizes the urgent need to exempt psychiatric/mental health nurses from the recruitment freeze to prevent the closure of services.
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Psychiatric nurses give three weeks’ notice of industrial action
