A mental health nurse who went public with his concerns about a new psychiatric unit has been suspended indefinitely.

If there was one over-riding message that HSE honchos wanted media to take from a tour of the new acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital on January 20, it was that all was well.

A child in need of in-patient psychiatric care was placed in an adult unit for three weeks even though there was an empty bed in a nearby child and adolescent unit — because staff were unaware of the vacancy.

A PSYCHIATRIC hospital serving a major city is unfit for purpose and should be closed down, experts have warned.