{"id":585968,"date":"2026-08-31T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585968\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:56:17","slug":"multiple-non-compliances-found-in-suh-adult-mental-health-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585968\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple non-compliances found in SUH Adult Mental Health Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adult Mental Health Unit at Sligo University Hospital has received a negative report from the Mental Health Commission.<\/p>\n<p>An inspection which took place in April revealed multiple high-risk instances of non-compliance in the unit.<\/p>\n<p>The report, published today by the Mental Health Commission, found a critical-risk non-compliance, as well as seven high-risk instances of non-compliance at Sligo University Hospital&#8217;s Adult Mental Health Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 12 of the 34 categories up for review were not compliant with MHC regulations, with a further five not for review.<\/p>\n<p>The Code of Practice on Electro-Convulsive Therapy for Voluntary Patients was found to be a critical-risk non-compliance due to poor record-keeping at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>This was also the case during the 2025 review of the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Adult Mental Health Unit at Sligo University Hospital has received a negative report from the Mental Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-585968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}