{"id":154681,"date":"2025-11-23T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154681\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:57:08","slug":"roscommon-td-warns-psychiatric-unit-under-pressure-due-to-lack-of-community-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154681\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscommon TD warns psychiatric unit under pressure due to lack of community care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to a third of beds in Roscommon&#8217;s psychiatric unit are taken up by people who should be cared for in the community.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Ballygar GP and Fianna F\u00e1il TD Martin Daly, who was speaking in the D\u00e1il this week.<\/p>\n<p>There are 24 beds in Roscommon&#8217;s psychiatric unit &#8211; but there are plans for a new 50-bed unit.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Daly says there&#8217;s a shortage of community care also.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Junior Health Minister Jennifer Murnane O&#8217;Connor says the issue does need to be addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to a third of beds in Roscommon&#8217;s psychiatric unit are taken up by people who should be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411,87162],"class_list":{"0":"post-154681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth","13":"tag-psychiatric-unit-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}