{"id":347128,"date":"2026-01-01T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:55:10","slug":"over-1000-people-presented-to-wexford-general-hospital-in-mental-health-crisis-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347128\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 people presented to Wexford General Hospital in mental health crisis this year"},"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\">Wicklow Wexford TD says \u2018mental health services are in a state of emergency\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Over 1,000 people in 2025 presented themselves to Wexford General Hospital with a mental health crisis.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/62c592bf-a95f-40b4-9125-a838382ed68b.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)\">Over 1,000 people in 2025 presented themselves to Wexford General Hospital with a mental health crisis.<\/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)\">A local TD has called out the HSE for failing to provide a mental health crisis unit in Wexford after over 1,000 people have presented to Wexford General Hospital in 2025.<\/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)\">Over the past five years 5,105 people in Wexford, including 877 children presented themselves to the A&amp;E unit of Wexford General Hospital in a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow Wexford TD says \u2018mental health services are in a state of emergency\u2019 Over 1,000 people in 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[63686,102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-347128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-alan-white","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}