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:
We are implementing A Vision for Change, which I know we are coming to next week. As such, we are on a constant journey to try to increase the number of community child and adolescent psychological teams, old-age teams, liaison teams and adult teams. It is all set out and we are on a particular road map to implement the policy. We have a view and are able to see within each CHO where it is in terms of what it should have in its area. We know how far from A Vision for Change norms it might be or even from the national average and we know which areas are worst off and best off, etc. There is a plan in place for the business we are in and what we have to try to achieve. They can spend money in line with the operational plans. We have a national service plan and an annual operational plan and each community health organisation has its own operational plan which is a "drop-down" from the national plan. There is a very clear map set out.
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