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:
We will not be doing that. We are starting with ADHD because Dr. Maskey's report was a successful process and this was its recommendation to us. We need to start this. If we do not start with the ADHD pathway, it will take us a long time to agree criteria for auditing all of the other conditions. We must remember that there are many children who are prescribed medication through their GPs and who do not come to CAMHS. Once we broaden the review to other conditions, the whole thing becomes a much larger and more complex task but will not necessarily deliver a different result. If we audit ADHD and see any flag, we will examine it in more detail outside of ADHD.
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