You’d be forgiven for thinking Ireland’s mental health crisis was a problem of consumer awareness. Last week’s Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) report outlined chronic shortages and inefficiencies in Irish mental health services. We only have 22 adult mental health beds per 100,000 population compared to a mean of 70 per 100,000 across the EU. But it shows that penny-pinching about mental health doesn’t even make sense by its own miserable logic. Read MoreIreland has a mental health emergency so let’s have an emergency response.

Source: Irish Independent May 23, 2021 01:37 UTC