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Mental health in the Republic of Ireland is the subject of state and community sector intervention in Ireland. The Irish state devolves responsibility for mental health to the Department of Health. Community groups and charities also provide support in the prevention and management of mental illness as well as suicide prevention.
The hospital was founded with money bequeathed by the author Jonathan Swift following his death as "St. Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles". [1]In March 1747, Dr. Steevens' Hospital agreed to provide a small amount of land fronting Bow Lane for the purposes of building St. Patrick's, however it was nearly three years afterwards before construction commenced, as the governors became involved in ...
Health Service Executive, Mental Health Services in Dublin North West in Health Service Executive (HSE) website (Accessed 14.02.2011). Kelly, Brendan D., 'Learning disability and forensic mental healthcare in 19th century Ireland' in Irish Psychological Medicine, 25(3) (2008), pp 116–8.
St. Loman's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Loman) was a psychiatric hospital located in Mullingar, Westmeath in the Midlands of Ireland. The hospital closed on 5 December 2013 following the relocation of St Edna's Ward, which was the only remaining ward in the original Gothic building, to a new building on campus.
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The hospital, which was designed by Francis Johnston, opened as the Carlow District Lunatic Asylum in 1832. [1] It became Carlow Mental Hospital in 1925 and, having been re-named St. Dympna's Hospital, after St. Dympna, the patron saint of mental illness, in 1958, it was taken over by the Department of Health in 1971. [2]
Holywell Hospital was first opened with over 400 beds available for mental health in 1899. Initially called Antrim County Lunatic Asylum, the need was based on the massive pressures already existing at the time in Belfast’s former mental hospital which was then based on the site of the current Royal Maternity Hospital on the Grosvenor Road.
St. Patrick's provides a wide range of treatment programmes. These include programmes for mood disorders (depression and bipolar depression), anxiety disorder, an alcohol dependence / substance abuse programme, eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia, cognitive behavioural therapy, a young adult programme, an adolescent service, a dual diagnosis programme, a memory clinic and general ...