Commission publishes new local visit report – New Craigs Hospital, Inverness

The Mental Welfare Commission today published one local visit report, to a ward for people with a learning disability at New Craigs Hospital, Inverness.

The report highlights positive and negative findings from the Commission's visit and makes five recommendations for change. The Commission expects a response to each of its recommendations within three months of the report being published.

Claire Lamza, interim executive director, Mental Welfare Commission, said: 

“We are carefully reintroducing our visits on an announced basis given the challenges of the pandemic. As well as looking at our ongoing areas of interest we are seeking to understand how services are coping with pandemic restrictions, and how those restrictions are affecting individuals and visitors.

“By publishing our reports we hope to help share good practice where we find it, and call for change where services are lacking." 

The report is published here:
 

Notes to editors

This local visit was undertaken using a combination of telephone contact with staff and managers prior to (and after) the visit, and interviews in person with ward staff. Interviews with patients (supported by advocates), and relatives, took place using video technology.

The Commission is undertaking a phased return to its visit programme following the recommendations in the Scottish Government’s route map to recovery.