Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE
Dr. Maura Young:
If we look back and take the learning from this, it is for a clinical team co-ordinator, which is one of the recommendations of the Maskey report. That is why we have moved to put a clinical team co-ordinator in place at present. As the Deputy said, it is extremely difficult to recruit a consultant. We are having ongoing difficulties to this day in getting a consultant into that post. As the Deputy said, we needed to have a person on the ground to hold the team together, to manage the referrals and to manage what was happening to the patients in the team. We have now got a clinical co-ordinator in place.
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