Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Ber Grogan:

I will circulate the Council of Europe compendium of good practice. Dr. Fiona Morrissey sent it to me the other day and it is great. It contains a map of Europe and you can click on each country to see some of the examples. The UK has the No Force First initiative, Finland has a workbook of hospitals and wards and across Europe, there is an intervention called Safewards. There are also some community-based interventions, such as the personal ombudsman in Sweden, which has been going since 1995. There are mental health mobile units in Greece that go around the community and there are also hybrid approaches combining community and inpatient settings. There are many places that are either trialling things or have been doing them for a very long time. As Ms Coyle said, it requires the ambition and drive to move away from seclusion and restraint. I have other examples that I can email to members after the meeting.

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