Mental Health Commission
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Narratives of hope in mental illness
- Health & Family
- November 5, 2017, 05:01
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(...)

Hospitals will have to report serious incidents within 24 hours
- Irish News
- October 25, 2017, 19:43
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(...)

Approach to nursing home contracts ‘may be illegal’
- Social Affairs
- October 12, 2017, 19:41
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 paid €50m to review mental health detentions
- Health
- October 4, 2017, 05:00
Lawyers, psychiatrists and others have been paid almost €50 million for reviewing decisions to detain mental health patients in hospitals involuntaril(...)

Mental Health Commission seeks power to run community residences
- Health
- September 12, 2017, 01:00
The Mental Health Commission has again called on the Government to give it powers to regulate community-based care services where an increasing number(...)

Medication management at eating disorder facility ‘not safe’
- Health
- September 1, 2017, 11:49
A new inspection of mental health facilities around Ireland has found two facilities with “high” risk ratings attached to certain areas of their servi(...)

‘Privacy and dignity’ lacking at acute psychiatric unit
- Health
- August 24, 2017, 20:55
Four bedrooms at an acute psychiatric unit in University Hospital Limerick did not have adequate screening or curtains to ensure residents’ “privacy a(...)

Growing number of children placed in adult mental-health facilities
- Health
- July 7, 2017, 20:11
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(...)

‘My 10-year-old son wants to be dead. Nobody will help him’
- Health & Family
- June 26, 2017, 06:00
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 (...)
Vulnerable adults: watchdog needed
- Editorial
- April 17, 2017, 00:01
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(...)