Mental health abuse ‘ignored by doctors’

MENTAL health campaigner John McCarthy has criticised a statement from Ireland’s psychiatrists defending the quality of the country’s mental health services and its role in advocating for mental health patients.

Four days after Behind the Walls, a documentary on the state of mental health services, was broadcast on RTÉ, the College of Psychiatry of Ireland (CPI) issued a statement criticising the programme-makers for failing to examine “multiple advances in the treatment of mental illness” by GPs and at secondary level care by specialists.

The CPI said mental health treatment is now far more “person-focused”.