Daly, Antoinette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3691-6777, Lovett, Harriet and Lynn, Ena
(2025)
National Psychiatric Inpatient Reporting System (NPIRS) annual report on the activities of Irish psychiatric units and hospitals, 2024.
Dublin:
Health Research Board.
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There were 15,578 admissions to adult psychiatric units and hospitals in 2024, a decrease of 53 admissions, from 15,631 in 2023. The rate of admissions decreased slightly, from 303.6 per 100,000 population in 2023 to 302.5 in 2024.
- As in 2023, first admissions accounted for 37% of all admissions in 2024. There was a 2% decrease in the number of first admissions, from 5,838 in 2023 to 5,706 in 2024.
- The rate of first admissions decreased from 113.4 per 100,000 in 2023 to 110.8 in 2024.
- Re-admissions accounted for 63% of all admissions (9,872), a rate of 191.7 per 100,000, up slightly from 190.2 in 2023.
p. 8 There were 345 admissions with no fixed abode in 2024, an increase from 302 in 2023 and 291 in 2022.
Forty-one per cent of all admissions with no fixed abode had a primary admission diagnosis of schizophrenia, 10% had a diagnosis of other drug disorders, 9% had a diagnosis of depressive disorders and 7% had a diagnosis of bipolar disorders. Almost 35% of all admissions with no fixed abode were involuntary.
p.10 Sligo had the highest rate of all admissions for alcohol-related disorders, at 34.2 per 100,000, followed by Roscommon, at 21.3, Carlow, at 21.0, and Leitrim, at 19.9.
Longford had the lowest rate of all admissions for alcohol-related disorders, at 4.3 per 100,000.
p.12 Fifty-three per cent of all discharges for behavioural and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence, 45% of discharges for development disorders, 45% of discharges for personality and behavioural disorders and a further 45% with other drug disorders occurred within one week of admission. In contrast, smaller proportions of discharges with organic mental disorders (19%), schizophrenia (20%) and eating disorders (almost 15%) occurred within one week of admission.
G Health and disease > Substance use disorder (addiction) > Alcohol use disorder
G Health and disease > Substance use disorder (addiction) > Drug use disorder
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Type of care > Mental health care (Psychiatry / Psychology)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care programme, service or facility > Hospital
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland > County / regional data
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