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Inspection reports have been published for 15 mental health centres across the country, including a number in Mayo, Galway and Sligo.<\/p>\n
In Mayo University Hospital, the Acute Mental Health Unit was subject to a four-day unannounced inspection this time last year.\u00a0 The unit was found to be 78% compliant with rules, regulations and codes of practice.<\/p>\n
In 2025, the approved centre for Mayo was found non-compliant in eight regulatory areas.<\/p>\n
Of these reoccurring areas, a risk rating of high remained unchanged in four regulatory areas: Individual Care Plans, Privacy, Premises, and the Rules Governing Seclusion and an unchanged moderate risk rating in the Maintenance of Records.<\/p>\n
Just five years ago, this centre was over 90% compliant with set regulations.<\/p>\n
Last year, the inspection team informally approached residents and sought their views on the approved centre. Set times and a private room were available to talk to residents as well.<\/p>\n
Two residents were interviewed by the inspection team. One resident reported they were not involved in the development of their individual care plan and had not seen their care plan. The second resident reported that their views were not documented within their care plan.<\/p>\n
One resident said that the occupational therapists were passionate about their work. Another reported they would like for a soil area in the garden for planting flowers and stated that they did not feel safe in the approved centre.<\/p>\n
Concerns were also raised regarding cleanliness, with one resident reporting that they needed to wipe down chairs before visitors arrived.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, while Sligo\u2019s unit was the lowest rated for the region, Galway\u2019s Child Adolescent Mental Health In-Patient Unit at Merlin Park University Hospital received an 85% compliance with the rules, regulations and codes of practice. The second highest in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Inspection reports have been published for 15 mental health centres across the country, including a number in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-512668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512668","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=512668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}