Cork could lose 54 psychiatric nurses
Cork could lose as many as 54 psychiatric nurses to the Government's early retirement scheme this month, prompting fears that the development of community mental health services will be abandoned.
Northern Ireland has the world's highest recorded rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, ahead of war-hit regions such as Israel and Lebanon, at a yearly cost to the public purse of around £175 million, according to a major report by University of Ulster psychologists and Omagh-based trauma treatment experts.