Mental Health Commission

An “almost total absence” of community mental health supports across the State has been criticised in a new discussion paper from the Mental Health Co(...)

Citizens are encouraged to talk and to seek help for mental health. When they do, they need to get it. Recently, a national 24-hour mental health phon(...)

A scheme to replace the almost 150-year-old wards of court system has been delayed again due to lack of funding. The Decision Support Service (DSS),(...)

A mental health centre in Co Laois carried out electro-compulsive therapy (ECT) on a patient without obtaining proper consent, constituting a breach o(...)

A patient at the Central Mental Hospital was kept in seclusion for 111 hours on a single occasion last year, according to a report that is highly crit(...)

A Dublin mental health centre has failed to comply with the code of practice on physical restraint for four consecutive years, an inspection report ha(...)

Another 60 women have applied to join the support group for those affected by the CervicalCheck controversy after an independent review of their smear(...)

The Health Service Executive has had to pay compensation of up to €10,000 in some cases to employment agencies when it wanted to offer permanent posts(...)

There are more than 2,600 fewer staff working in mental health services than recommended in the official Government policy for the sector, the HSE has(...)

The lack of long-term rehabilitative services means that adults with acute mental health issues “are falling through the gaps” and not receiving the s(...)