A patient was topless while isolated in Roscommon’s psychiatric unit for nearly 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The mental health watchdog has raised serious concern about this in a new report.<\/p>\n
This morning, the Mental Health Commission published its annual inspection report into the Department of Psychiatry in Roscommon University Hospital.<\/p>\n
There were 24 patients staying there during the inspection over four days last July.<\/p>\n
Overall, the level of compliance dropped to 72 per cent – lower than either of the previous four years.<\/p>\n
The centre was found to be non-compliant with minimum standards in nine areas.<\/p>\n
They said a particular concern surrounded the use of seclusion, which was found to be critical.<\/p>\n
Seclusion involves a patient being left in a room and prevented from leaving.<\/p>\n
It normally ends when a doctor or nurse decides the patient is no longer a threat to themselves or others.<\/p>\n
The watchdog said a patient was topless while secluded for 23.5 hours.<\/p>\n
The commission says there was no proof they were offered a top.<\/p>\n
This meant, it said, the resident wasn’t wearing clothes which respected their privacy and rights.<\/p>\n
The HSE says it has since got extra clothing that than be used in these circumstances.<\/p>\n
It said: “Further refractive clothing items were ordered 23\/09\/2025 and orders arrived 03\/10\/2025 – three of each sizes.<\/p>\n
“Spare extra large male clothing pack used, with replacement resolved as of 06\/10\/2025.”<\/p>\n
The premises itself was also deemed to be noncompliant – not kept in a good state of repair, inside or outside.<\/p>\n
There are plans for a new psychiatric unit in Roscommon, with the design team expected to be in place month for the project.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A patient was topless while isolated in Roscommon’s psychiatric unit for nearly 24 hours. The mental health watchdog…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515,34364],"class_list":{"0":"post-458483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth","13":"tag-psychiatric"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}