Mixed views over mental health reforms

People with mental health difficulties and their families are still not seeing the improvements envisaged in the national mental health policy — A Vision for Change — more than 13 years ago, a rights group claims.

Mental Health Reform, the national coalition on mental health in Ireland, has published two national surveys on people’s experience of HSE mental services and it is very mixed. Around 40% of people had a poor experience; 30% found it was “neither a good nor poor experience”, while 30% had a good experience.