Children were sharing bathrooms with adult patients in an acute psychiatric unit while 20 patients shared one bath and one shower in another facility, the Mental Health Commission has found. It said the 52-bed acute psychiatric unit at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, “had a high risk on admission of children”. At the 39-bed acute psychiatric unit in Ennis hospital, Co Clare “the standard of individual care plans was poor and risk was rated as critical”. “There was no evidence that care plans were reviewed by the full multi-disciplinary team . Not all care plans inspected identified residents’ assessed needs and goals regarding therapeutic services and programmes,” the report says.

Source: The Irish Times May 09, 2019 15:33 UTC