The HSE is targeting mental health and acute hospitals in Dublin, according to a leaked document outlining how it will cut €130m nationally. It is proposed that 25 mental health beds would close, affecting, primarily, the Central Mental Hospital and…
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Seven patients granted conditional release from CMH
The board’s annual report, published by the Department of Justice, said that “for the first time” they were able to consider a “small number of suitable patients” for conditional discharge. This power had been granted to the board following the…
Examiner editorial: HSE staffing shortages – Cutbacks are a recipe for disaster
It MIGHT be flippant to suggest that conditions at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) are ‘crazy’, but before long we could be wondering if some of those responsible for those conditions are not in need of treatment themselves. Professor Harry…
Expert: Central hospital facing legal challenges
THE Central Mental Hospital is facing a raft of legal challenges because offenders are not being rehabilitated adequately due to chronic staff shortages, the head of the country’s most high- profile unit has warned. Documents obtained by the Irish Examiner…
Health spending priorities revealed
IN THE face of widespread cutbacks, the Department of Health argued that priority must be given to the National Children’s Hospital, the replacement of the Central Mental Hospital, the national plan for radiation oncology, an expanded programme of primary care…
Women’s unit of mental hospital ‘totally unsuitable’
THE WOMEN’S unit at the Central Mental Hospital, Dublin is “totally unsuitable” and “grim”, a report by the Mental Health Commission has found. Residents in the unit’s high-observation area had no living area and instead would sit in a “grim…
Central Mental Hospital case reviews rise by 22% last year
The annual report of the Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board has disclosed some 205 reviews took place during the year, involving a total of 94 patients. Of the 94 reviewed last year, the majority (almost 70 per cent) were suffering…
