Intent: Policy implemented/investment in neuro-rehabilitation services
Details: Implementing the Neuro-rehabilitation Strategy/Implementation Framework
Intent: Accelerate prison vaccination roll-out so that Ireland meets its obligations and duties to people detained.::Outline the importance of prison vaccination programme to the protection and promotion of wider public health.::Emphasise importance of early vaccine roll-out to minimise harms to physical and mental health of ongoing restrictions.::Advocate for the transfer of responsibility for prison healthcare to the national health service.
Details: Covid-19 vaccine roll out in prisons
Intent: Achieve an effective update to the Work Safely protocol::Ensure effective guidance developed through the Return to Work Safely protocol
Details: National (Return to Work Safely) Protocol Stakeholder Group
Intent: To inform about ALONE's work on loneliness
Details: Virtual meeting to inform officials from the Department of Health, Sláintecare and Healthy Ireland about ALONE's work on loneliness
Intent: Greater and more systematic patient involvement and public transparency on the negotiation process
Details: Letter to Dept. of Health regarding the negotiations with IPHA re innovative medicines
Intent: To deliver legislative change, increased public funding for mental health and policy change.
Details: To seek support for legislative change for mental health, for greater public investment and for policy change to deliver better services.
Intent: Flag IPRT's concerns about the current crisis of mental health within the Irish penal system, including current waiting times for prisoner transfer to the Central Mental Hospital.::Promote the need to divert people suffering with mental illness away from prison and towards therapeutic settings::Increase the range of responses available within prison for those suffering with mental health difficulties::To ask for a meeting to discuss these specific concerns
Details: Mental Health & the Penal System
Intent: Prioritisation of Travellers and Roma for COVID19 vaccination
Details: Covid19 vaccination for Travellers and Roma
Intent: Deeper and more meaningful engagement will take place at Bilateral meetings between the Community and Voluntary Pillar and Department of Health
Details: Letter to Assistant Secretary General in Department of Health regarding the current structure of Bilateral meetings between the Social Inclusion unit in the Department of Health and Community and Voluntary Pillar
Intent: Change in mental health law and increased funding for the mental health system
Details: To advocate for legislative change and increased public funding for mental health.
