MORE than 1,400 mental health patients are continuing to live in inappropriate conditions in old psychiatric hospitals despite a damning report more than a year ago urging the Government to close them.

FAMILY members of a man who died in hospital three days after he was transferred from a Dublin nursing home yesterday expressed concern that when they found their brother unwell in the home they were told a doctor would not be available until the following day.

DISTURBED and violent psychiatric patients have nowhere to go due to a chronic shortage of secure beds, according to Fine Gael spokesman for Mental Heath, Dan Neville.

A COUGH could cause a brain haemorrhage in people taking a common blood thinning treatment, an inquest heard yesterday.

A 64-YEAR-OLD patient in a psychiatric hospital choked to death due to a side effect of medication, an inquest heard yesterday.

IN response to recent media coverage relating to service provision in St Brendan’s Hospital in Dublin we wish to describe the nature of, and the context in which, services are delivered by the hospital.