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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...
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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...
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Harry Kennedy: ‘Libertarian’ groupthink not helping mentally ill
Prisons increasingly act as psychiatric AE trolleys for such disabled citizens, mainly young men with schizophrenia. It should be obvious to any pragmatist that any principle (“rights based . . . a...
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Transfer of group to hospital criticised
The State’s mental health watchdog has criticised health authorities for planning to move a group of intellectually disabled people who have been living in the community back into an outdated...
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