Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive

2:00 pm

Ms Anne O'Connor:

In terms of the governance piece, I share the Deputy's concern about the chief officer and the breadth of the responsibility. They have now all got heads of service. Within Mr. Reaney's area there is a head of service for mental health, another one for primary care and another one for social care. There is quite a strong management team in each of the nine community health organisations and there is a very senior person there dedicated just to mental health. They are surrounded in turn by a team that includes the executive clinical director, directors of nursing, etc. The governance within the CHO has become a lot more robust and there is a dedicated management structure around mental health in each of the nine community health organisations. That might allay some of that concern.

Mr. Mulvany might wish to address the question about the drugs.

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