Mental Health Commission

As a self-confessed pessimist, I often shy away from hope. I don’t mean that I am sunk in despair – I have no right to be: I’ve had a charmed life, fr(...)

Serious incidents in hospitals will have to be notified by law within 24 hours and a preliminary assessment will have to be completed within five work(...)

The current approach to signing contracts for entering nursing homes can be too casual and may even be illegal, support and advocacy for the elderly a(...)

Lawyers, psychiatrists and others have been paid almost €50 million for reviewing decisions to detain mental health patients in hospitals involuntaril(...)

The Mental Health Commission has again called on the Government to give it powers to regulate community-based care services where an increasing number(...)

A new inspection of mental health facilities around Ireland has found two facilities with “high” risk ratings attached to certain areas of their servi(...)

Four bedrooms at an acute psychiatric unit in University Hospital Limerick did not have adequate screening or curtains to ensure residents’ “privacy a(...)

Just 6 per cent of mental health units were compliant with staffing regulations last year and an increasing number of children are being placed in uni(...)

Imagine the desperation of being the mother of a 10-year-old boy who “wants to be dead” every single day of his life. Or having to sleep next to your (...)

A survey which found that half of the State’s vulnerable adults have been abused or seen somebody close to them abused is deeply shocking. The Red C s(...)