Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE

1:30 pm

Ms Anne O'Connor:

In terms of what we are trying to do, we have an underpinning framework based on recovery within the mental health services. It is about maintaining people in their lives in terms of employment and within their communities. Our intention is to support people. That is the reason we have initiatives such as the early intervention psychosis initiative and the independent placement and support, IPS, initiative, where we are supporting people to remain in employment in their lives so they are not attending day centres and so forth at all. That is really not the model we want-----

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