St. Patrick's Mental Health Services

St. Patrick's Mental Health Services is a mental health organisation in Ireland, with over 700 staff members delivering 12% of the country’s total in-patient care and treatment needs.

Services

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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 mental health care.[1]

It provides in patient services at St Patrick's University Hospital, St Patrick's, Lucan (formerly St Edmundsbury Hospital).[2]

It installed the first mental health Electronic Health Record (EHR) in Ireland, using Servelec's RiO solution[3] for its eSwift EHR in September 2017.[4] In July 2020, St Patrick's launched a service user portal using the Patient Knows Best patient portal solution.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Our services". St Patrick’s Mental Health Services. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Getting peace of mind". Irish Times. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  3. ^ "First fully integrated mental health record to be launched in Ireland". 3 December 2017.
  4. ^ "St Patrick's Mental Health Services launches first mental health EHR in Ireland". Digital Health. 23 November 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  5. ^ "St Patrick's Mental Health Services launches Patient Portal". 7 July 2020.
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