Ireland is an “outlier” when it comes to psychiatric treatment compared to our EU counterparts according to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association. They say that 30% of permanent consultant psychiatrist posts are vacant while we only have 22 adult acute mental health beds per 100,000 population compared to EU mean of 70 per 100,000. To discuss further we heard from Dr Anne Doherty Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Mater & Associate Professor UCD.
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