Patients in ‘revolving door’ system, Mental Health Commission warns

As with previous reports, the latest edition benchmarks progress, or the lack thereof, within mental health services against recommendations in the 2006 A Vision for Change document, launched by the government of the day.

The Mental Health Commission has slammed the “minimum improvement” in mental health services over the past 10 years and said many patients are in a “revolving door” system as a result.

The commission has today published its Rehabilitation and Recovery in Irish Mental Health Services report, written by Inspector of Mental Health Services, Dr Susan Finnerty, as well as 14 individual reports outlining the scale of the shortcomings in different regions around the country.