Mental Health Commission

It is a rare and refreshing event when a statutory body bites the hand that feeds it. Such organisations worry that any blunt criticism of government (...)

The Government is working on a “radical” transformation of mental health services by directing sufferers to the internet rather than visiting doctors (...)

The number of children placed in adult mental health units rose by 20 per cent last year despite repeated calls for the practice to end. The Mental H(...)

A law curtailing the use of Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) on involuntary mental health patients did not result in fewer people receiving the treatm(...)

The Government wants to pare back the existing HSE structures and devolve more to the regions, the Minister for Health Simon Harris has said. Answeri(...)

The chair of the scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck controversy has criticised the Health Service Executive for a continuing delay in providing do(...)

Nine new legal cases have been initiated against the National Screening Service by women claiming their cervical cancer was misdiagnosed. The State C(...)

The Department of Justice spent nearly €1 million on consultancy reports in recent years, including a “value for money” review of the prison service’s(...)

A centre providing care and treatment for adults with eating disorders has been ordered to stop admitting seriously ill patients after an inspection f(...)

New standards are to be developed for the health and social care sectors to safeguard vulnerable adults and to protect them from physical, financial, (...)