PATIENTS with mental health needs are still not getting proper access to therapeutic services and individual care plans are not being followed though, according to the Mental Health Commission’s latest inspection.

THE relocation project for a learning disability unit in Carlow has got underway, with a sod-turning ceremony on the grounds of St Dympna’s Hospital.

NURSES at a home for intellectually disabled people where knee-high weeds clog recreation areas and plaster is peeling from walls have begun protest action to improve conditions.