Physical restraint accounted for over 70 per cent of all reported restrictive practices in mental health centres last year.
It comes as the latest Mental Health Commission report shows an almost 50 per cent decline in the use of such practices, which involve physically restraining a person or secluding them from others.
John Farrelly, CEO of the Mental Health Commission, says Ireland is focusing on a human rights approach:
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