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HSA acknowledges concerns at city psychiatric unit
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The Health and Safety Authority has confirmed it’s aware of concerns at the psychiatric unit at University Hospital Galway.
The authority has been asked to examine the unit over patient safety concerns.
Fianna Fáil’s mental health spokesperson, Galway East T.D, Colm Keaveney claims that staff at the unit made the request in a letter to the HSA.
The authority says it’s aware of concerns at the unit, and is engaging with staff.
The news comes on the back of Professor Shane O’Neill’s resignation as Beaumont Hospital’s Clinical Director over the assessment of pyschiatric patients in the emergency department.
A mental health expert says the policy of admitting psychiatric patients to emergency departments needs to be ‘looked at’.
Siobhan Barry is the Clinical Director of the Cluain Mhuire Service – she says community centres should be the focus for mental health services, and not acute hospitals.
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