{"id":323660,"date":"2026-03-01T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:19:10","slug":"campaigners-call-for-policy-overhaul-to-end-dangerous-out-of-hours-medication-gap-for-wexfords-disabled-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323660\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners call for policy overhaul to end \u2018dangerous\u2019 out-of-hours medication gap for Wexford\u2019s disabled community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jaimie Williams with the petition.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1eb7fd7d-ee84-4637-8852-288fc7f2939a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jaimie Williams with the petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is 9 p.m. on a Friday, and for most, the weekend has just begun. But for the mother of a child with complex disabilities in Co. Wexford, the silence of the night is broken by the familiar and terrifying signs of a rising fever or a sudden seizure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In situations like this, which are more often than rare for certain families, the out-of-hours Caredoc service becomes a point of anxiety rather than a reliant medical safety net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaimie Williams with the petition. It is 9 p.m. on a Friday, and for most, the weekend has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,15968],"class_list":["post-323660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rachel-cahill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323660","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=323660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}