‘Victorian’ conditions criticised in major psych unit

Conditions found by inspectors in a HSE psychiatric unit were the “physical manifestation of the lack of care” afforded to vulnerable mental health patients for too long in this country, a judge says.

In the first case of its kind, the Mental Health Commission (MHC) successfully took action against the HSE under the Mental Health Act over the conditions at St Luke’s Psychiatric Unit in Kilkenny.