Cork psychiatric hospital taken to court over 'suitability of ward for admission of patients'

The court heard a breach of a condition of registration allegedly occurred at the acute ward of St Stephen's Hospital

The court heard the Mental Health Commission had some concerns about St Stephen's Hospital (pictured) for a number of years. File picture: Dan Linehan

The HSE’s St Stephen’s psychiatric hospital in Cork is being prosecuted by the Mental Health Commission for an alleged breach of a condition of registration.

Barrister, Eoghan O’Sullivan, for the Mental Health Commission, said: “The conditions of registration are there for the protection of vulnerable people. There are concerns about the suitability of that (emergency) ward for the admission of patients.”