{"id":293380,"date":"2026-02-20T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293380\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:49:13","slug":"tanaiste-brands-lack-of-24-7-psychiatric-care-in-wexford-a-major-concern-as-he-vows-mental-health-services-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293380\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste brands lack of 24\/7 psychiatric care in Wexford \u2018a major concern\u2019 as he vows mental health services overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An T\u00e1niste Simon Harris TD and hospital manager Linda O'Leary at Wexford General Hospital on Friday afternoon. Photo: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6e64a1bf-9f25-4f42-9f8d-32e0a01419b3.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)\">An T\u00e1niste Simon Harris TD and hospital manager Linda O&#8217;Leary at Wexford General Hospital on Friday afternoon. Photo: Jim Campbell<\/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)\">T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris has given the strongest indication yet that 24\/7 psychiatric care could soon be implemented at Wexford General Hospital.<\/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 Fine Gael leader met with hospital management as part of a whistle stop tour of Wexford on Friday and was struck by the need for an overhaul in how mental health services are delivered in the model county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An T\u00e1niste Simon Harris TD and hospital manager Linda O&#8217;Leary at Wexford General Hospital on Friday afternoon. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69,33556],"class_list":{"0":"post-293380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-padraig-byrne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293380","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=293380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}