There were 15,631 admissions to adult psychiatric units and hospitals in 2023, a decrease of 159 admissions, from 15,790 in 2022. The rate of admissions decreased from 331.6 in 2022 to 303.6 per 100,000 total population in 2023. First admissions accounted for 37% of all admissions and increased by 426 (8%), from 5,412 in 2022 to 5,838 in 2023. The rate of first admissions remained largely unchanged from 113.7 in 2022 to 113.4 per 100,000 in 2023. Re-admissions accounted of 63% of all admissions (9,793), a rate of 190.2 per 100,000, down from 217.9 in 2022.

P.7 There were 302 admissions with no fixed abode in 2023, up slightly from 291 in 2022 and 284 in 2021. Sixty-eight per cent of admissions with no fixed abode were male and 81% were single.

P.8 Thirty-three per cent of all admissions with no fixed abode had a primary admission diagnosis of schizophrenia, 16% had a diagnosis of other drug disorders, 12% had a diagnosis of personality and behavioural disorders, 8% had a diagnosis of bipolar disorders with a further 7% having a diagnosis of depressive disorders. Thirty per cent of all admissions with no fixed abode were involuntary admissions. The majority of admissions (62%) with no fixed abode were readmissions.

P.12 Almost half (48%) of all discharges for personality and behavioural disorders and other drug disorders (47%), 45% of discharges for intellectual disability, 45% of discharges for behavioural and emotional disorders, and 44% of discharges for development disorders occurred within one week of admission. One-third (33%) of all discharges for anxiety or fear-related disorders/ OCD/stress-related disorders, 29% for depressive disorders and 28% of discharges for alcohol-related disorders also occurred within one week of admission.

P.10 Donegal had the highest rate of all admissions for alcohol-related disorders, at 39.5 per 100,000, followed by Roscommon, at 35.6 Sligo, at 28.5 and Leitrim, at 22.7.

Tipperary South had the lowest rate of all admissions for alcohol-related disorders, at 3.2 per 100,000.