AMNCH - Objectives of HSE Dublin West/South West Mental Health Nursing Service

To promote good mental health and the prevention and treatment of illness.
To sustain and develop an equitable, high quality, cost effective service, providing a continuum of care by a combination of community and inpatient services.
To provide services in a manner, which is sensitive and responsive to the needs of those availing of the service, the staff entrusted with its delivery and the community, which it serves.
To provide treatment in the least restrictive environment possible.
To promote partnership with voluntary agencies.
To act as a specialist resource to primary care to empower general practitioners and others to identify and treat psychiatric illness in primary care settings.
To provide family support and education.
To support voluntary agencies working for mental health sufferers and their families and carers.

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