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Every week Mental Health Reform will post items relating to mental health services in Ireland. We hope that this blog will help stimulate debate about mental health and mental health services. The blog will feature items from Mental Health Reform Staff, the Director of Mental Health Reform and from guest bloggers including experts by experience and mental health professionals.We welcome comments, however we would ask that all comments are respectful of bloggers and other commenters. Read more about our comment policy. Please note that not all blogs reflect the views of Mental Health Reform.
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New Director for Mental Health appointed.
Press Release – Immediate Release 17/05/2013 Mental Health Reform welcomes appointment of new National Director for Mental Health Mental Health [...]
Our opinion piece in today’s Irish Times
Mental health services need long-overdue cultural and structural revamp When a government policy is approaching its ‘sell by’ date and [...]
Public meeting in Mayo
Mental Health Reform invites people in the Mayo area with an interest in mental health services to attend a public [...]
Mental Health Reform launches report on recovery from mental health difficulties
Mental Health Reform has launched a report exploring the idea of recovery from mental health difficulties. The report, Recovery [...]
Monthly member blog: Dual Diagnosis explained
We continue our series of monthly member blogs, with this month’s blog coming to us from Dual Diagnosis Ireland. ‘Dual [...]
Changing the culture of mental health service delivery
MHR article in the Irish Medical News, April 2013 By Orla Barry The recovery principle set out in the Government’s [...]
Orla Barry on RTE’s Morning Edition
MHR’s Director Orla Barry was interviewed yesterday by RTE’s Morning Edition on our series of public meetings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahhJDI7PQkQ
Public meetings in Dublin and Wexford
Public Meetings in April on Mental Health Services Please note: If you are unable to attend our public meetings, we [...]
Monthly member blog: Mental health among asylum seekers in Ireland
This month, we begin the first in a new series of monthly member blogs, in which Mental Health Reform members [...]
Against the clock – how we marked AVFC anniversary
On 24th January 2006, the then Government agreed on a new mental health policy, A Vision for Change. Seven years [...]
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