{"id":870341,"date":"2026-04-03T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/870341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:27:24","slug":"lacking-beds-and-expertise-the-soaring-hse-overseas-psych-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/870341\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacking beds and expertise: The soaring HSE overseas psych spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ireland is lacking in both facilities and expertise when it comes to dealing with particularly complex psychiatric cases according to a consultant psychiatrist, a situation that\u2019s resulting in millions of euros being spent on sending patients abroad for care every year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Figures released by the HSE revealed that almost \u20ac33 million has been spent over the past three years sending a limited number of patients abroad for psychiatric care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is lacking in both facilities and expertise when it comes to dealing with particularly complex psychiatric cases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,21110,218,246993,246994,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-870341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-hse","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-professor-patricia-casey","12":"tag-psychiatric-care","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116343370214447526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}