The topics of ‘mental health’ and ‘driven to suicide’ are being conflated, or ‘mixed up’, in policy devised by the Department of Health. That is according to several county councillors, who were reacting this week to a letter received by the council in January.
In April last year, Cllr Frank Roche asked that a letter be sent to the department enquiring into research into the mental wellbeing of farmers in Co Cork. The letter the council got back did not directly address the query, but pointed to a national health policy, ‘Sharing the Vision’, and that “all aspects of mental health services will be improved through the implementation of the national mental health policy.”
However, Cllr Roche said that this was not addressing the issue he was speaking about, and detailed a recent experience.
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