{"id":324523,"date":"2025-12-03T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324523\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:00:12","slug":"kerry-mental-health-hub-highlighted-in-caring-for-kerry-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324523\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Mental Health hub highlighted in \u2018Caring for Kerry\u2019 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HSE&#8217;s public awareness campaign in Kerry is highlighting alternatives to the emergency department for mental health care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.hse.ie\/organisation\/hse-south-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HSE South West<\/a> says the Kerry Specialist Mental Health hub offers fast and comprehensive services to those in need of urgent care.<\/p>\n<p>GPs can refer patients directly to the hub for same-day access.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign aims to tackle overcrowding and significant wait times in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/university-hospital-kerry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University Hospital Kerry<\/a>\u2019s emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Area Director of Nursing, Aidan Murphy, said that the mental health hub could prevent long delays in the ED:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The HSE&#8217;s public awareness campaign in Kerry is highlighting alternatives to the emergency department for mental health care.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[182433,64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-324523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-caring-for-kerry-campaign","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}