Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion

10:00 am

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I asked how many of the 25 community teams were full. I want to know because when I perused the list, I noted the following: a shortage of 10.6 mental health support workers and a shortage of 8.9 nurses on the adult teams; CAMHS has a shortage of 10.3 consultant psychiatrists and 9.7 nurses; and psychiatry for old age services has a shortage of 10.2 mental health support workers. Reading between the lines it looks like not all of the teams are full.

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