The Friends of St. Patrick's Hospital 

The Association of the Friends of St. Patrick's Hospital was set up in 1978 to raise much needed funds to help finance the work of St. Patrick's Hospital.  It’s over 250 years since Dean Swift set up St. Patrick’s Hospital specifically to provide services to sufferers from mental illness.  Today the need for its services is greater than ever.  One in four people in Ireland suffer from mental illness and countless families and friends are  affected by it. 

St. Patrick’s Hospital, James’s St., Dublin is Ireland’s largest independent provider of mental health services.  It is a not-for-profit organisation which uses the monies raised through the Friends to provide facilities and services for the assessment, treatment and aftercare of people experiencing mental illness .  Further, its five year strategy, Mental Health Matters, commits it to developing a wide range of new services and treatments including Services for Adolescents, Community Mental Health Clinics (Dean Clinics), Addiction Services and Multi-disciplinary Assessment. 

Recently Dean Clinics have been opened in Dublin City Centre, Donaghmede, Lucan and Glasnevin: they provide multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment services.  The Cork Dean Clinic will be opened this year and further regional clinics are planned.. Our Adolescent services include a community based clinic and a new purpose-designed in-patient unit at St. Patrick’s Hospital - launch 30 March 2009.  

We invite you to help the Friends of St. Patrick's Hospital to fund this important work - because Mental Health Matters. 

Additional details of various Fundraising Projects are available on this website.  You are always welcome to contact us in one of the following ways:

Telephone  1850 249 3377 or Friends Direct line (01) 249 3632 or Email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it