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 reveal the extent of the crisis which forced CMH head Professor Harry Kennedy to write to HSE boss Cathal Magee in June warning that legal requirements around care, set down in legislation, were not being adhered to.
In March a visiting specialist, Dr Paul Gilluley of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, wrote that although his team was impressed by the high quality of care the patients received, they noted “major challenges”. (Examiner) >
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