Community mental health supports `almost totally absent´ - report
(WorldNews Health)

An `almost total absence` of community mental health supports across the State has been criticised in a new discussion paper from the Mental Health Commission (MHC). In addition, there is a major deficiency in the number of acute beds for older patients, the paper suggests. While acknowledging current provision of public acute adult mental health beds is broadly in line with recommendations in A Vision for Change - a strategic policy document published in 2006 - it suggests access to these beds...