{"id":280649,"date":"2026-02-12T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:24:09","slug":"eilis-ohanlon-on-rte-investigates-the-psychiatric-care-scandal-exemplary-public-service-journalism-and-families-broken-by-policy-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280649\/","title":{"rendered":"Eilis O\u2019Hanlon on RT\u00c9 Investigates \u2013 The Psychiatric Care Scandal: Exemplary public service journalism and families broken by policy failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nTelevision review\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacinta Graham\u2019s teenage son Stephen suffered brain injuries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c5418e00-780f-49b9-ad32-c9df33051d1b.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)\">Jacinta Graham\u2019s teenage son Stephen suffered brain injuries<\/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)\">Former Health Minister Mary Harney once said that the greatest lesson she had learned from her time in that most frustrating and challenging of political offices was that \u201cin each job you can only do incremental change\u201d.<\/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)\">The grim verdict from RT\u00c9 Investigates: The Psychiatric Care Scandal (RT\u00c9 One, Monday\/Tuesday, 9.35pm) shown over two nights this week, is that even incremental change can sometimes prove impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television review Jacinta Graham\u2019s teenage son Stephen suffered brain injuries Former Health Minister Mary Harney once said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[157179,134,45306,554,555,111,139,69,145090,42351],"class_list":{"0":"post-280649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eilis-ohanlon","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-people-culture-magazine","17":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}