Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

Ms Anne O'Connor:

I will start and also ask Dr. Amanda Burke to comment. We are starting with an audit of all teams in terms of prescribing. Dr. Maskey, in his report and conversations, has advised that we start with ADHD. The key issues here arose in respect of ADHD prescribing and that is where we are starting. That audit, as I said, is being designed because we did not have standards so there are not common standards against which to audit, and in order to audit there must be common standards to use. That work has been carried out in regard to defining what those standards are and the audit process being agreed. As I said, the group is meeting tomorrow to sign off on our approach to that.

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