Mental Health Commission criticises moving of patients to seperate centre for one night

The Mental Health Commission has slammed the practice where residents from an Acute Psychiatric Unit were transferred to a separate centre for the night, just to ease bed shortages, before being transferred back to the APU the next day.

The finding was made in a report on the Cappahard Lodge in Ennis in County Clare, which despite only being half full during the day, was at capacity at night due to transferring patients from the APU to help alleviate bed shortages there.