{"id":362247,"date":"2026-04-03T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:01:11","slug":"lacking-beds-and-expertise-the-soaring-hse-overseas-psych-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362247\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacking beds and expertise: The soaring HSE overseas psych spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is lacking in both facilities and expertise when it comes to dealing with particularly complex psychiatric cases according to a consultant psychiatrist, a situation that\u2019s resulting in millions of euros being spent on sending patients abroad for care every year.<\/p>\n<p>Figures released by the HSE revealed that almost \u20ac33 million has been spent over the past three years sending a limited number of patients abroad for psychiatric care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is lacking in both facilities and expertise when it comes to dealing with particularly complex psychiatric cases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,36572,554,555,111,139,69,190617,126093],"class_list":{"0":"post-362247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-hse","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-professor-patricia-casey","16":"tag-psychiatric-care"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362247","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=362247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}