Kennedy, Harry G. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-3272
Mullaney, Ronan
McKenna, Paul
Thompson, John
Timmons, David
Gill, Pauline
O’Sullivan, Owen P.
Braham, Paul
Duffy, Dearbhla
Kearns, Anthony
Linehan, Sally
Mohan, Damian
Monks, Stephen
McLoughlin, Lisa
O’Connell, Paul
O’Neill, Conor
Wright, Brenda
O’Reilly, Ken
Davoren, Mary
Article History
Received: 30 March 2020
Accepted: 11 October 2020
First Online: 23 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This project was instigated by a request from the Inspector of Mental Health Services, Mental Health Commission as a service evaluation for statutory inspection (Mental Health Act Section 51 [] (b)) []. This project was approved by the research ethics, audit and effectiveness committee, Central Mental Hospital (AUD/22082011/HK.) as a retrospective anonymised observational service evaluation and compliance project, not requiring consent. The authors declare that all aspects of the work complied with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
: All authors consent to publication of this original work. No patient-identifiable information published.
: The authors declare no competing interests. Harry G. Kennedy is an associate editor of BMC Psychiatry but has had no editorial role in the processing of this manuscript.