In a statement written by Robinson, explaining her rationale for discharging Calocane, she said: “It’s dire for me to think this now, but I used to think sometimes – is it worse to have somebody open on caseloads that you’re not engaging with? Should we be discharging them instead?<\/p>\n
“What does it look like if something happens and we’ve got this person open to us and we haven’t seen him for months and months and months?”<\/p>\n
Asked to explain this statement by Craig Carr, counsel for the chair of the inquiry, Robinson said: “I suppose, from previous experience, I’m worried about how that’s looked – that we’ve got somebody that’s open to us, and perhaps we’ve not been able to treat them for nine months, or find them.<\/p>\n
“So sometimes the decision’s better to discharge back to the GP.”<\/p>\n
Carr said it could be interpreted that Robinson was suggesting it was better to get someone “off the books” if they could not be found.<\/p>\n
Robinson added: “It feels safer to have somebody discharged back to the queue of the GP, than open to a secondary service when we can’t engage them, or we can’t do anything for them.”<\/p>\n
Carr had asked what mandatory training was required to work in the EIP team.<\/p>\n
Robinson said everybody did training at the trust “no matter the area that they work in”.<\/p>\n
She added: “So that covers things like basic life, risk management, record keeping, infection control.<\/p>\n
“We do mental health act training, mental capacity, care programme approach training, and they are more specific to mental health, but nothing specific to early prevention.”<\/p>\n
Carr then asked Robinson whether there was any staff training on managing disengaging patients, medication concordance, and when or whether to refer patients to the community forensic team.<\/p>\n
Robinson said there was not to her knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement written by Robinson, explaining her rationale for discharging Calocane, she said: “It’s dire for me…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-434990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}