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Galway Bay FM Newsroom – A new report found that incidents of restrictive practices reported at UHG’s Adult Acute Mental Health Unit more than doubled year over year.
Figures released by the Mental Health Commission show that the use of restrictive practices at the unit increased from 233 in 2018 to 492 in 2019.
The report details the number of times that restrictive practices, such as the use of physical restraints and seclusion, were used at the UHG unit between 2018 and 2019.
In 2018, 52 incidents of detention were recorded; this figure increased to 78 in 2019.
In total, 49 residents were detained in 2018, and the number increased to 60 last year.
Meanwhile, the use of physical restraints increased slightly from 180 incidents in 2018 to 181 in 2019.
Nationwide, there were nearly 6,800 episodes of restrictive practices reported to the MHC last year, and nearly 1,800 people were held and / or restrained during that time.
It comes as the Mental Health Commission has announced a plan to hold a public consultation on restrictive practices next year.
The MHC says it intends to modify relevant rules and codes of practice in an additional effort to reduce episodes of restrictive practices in the nation’s mental health services.
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