Critical risk rating at Waterford University Hospital as psychiatric patient left in corridor for six days

A female psychiatric patient was left for six days on a bed in a corridor in Waterford University Hospital, a new report claims.

An inspection report by the Mental Health Commission (MHC) found the 44-bed Department of Psychiatry in the hospital had a risk rating of “critical” in respect of five areas of compliance.

On the first day of inspection last May, the team noted a serious incident where two female residents were accommodated in beds on the corridor of the acute area of the ward.