{"id":702480,"date":"2026-04-03T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/702480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:48:19","slug":"lacking-beds-and-expertise-the-soaring-hse-overseas-psych-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/702480\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":3,"featured_media":702481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[210,80797,517,293301,57079,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-702480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-mental-health","tag-professor-patricia-casey","tag-psychiatric-care","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116342037518430803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}