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:

Supervision is a core part of how we deliver our services and, again, I will ask one of my clinical director colleagues to comment in terms of clinical supervision. Generally speaking, it is not adequate. What I see across our system in general is a very strong commitment to supervision. It must be said that his is across all disciplines, it must be said. Supervision is not just a medical factor; it is a clinical supervision model that happens in all of our clinical disciplines. As I said, all of our clinical disciplines working in these services are professionally registered in their own right through the respective body. In this case, it was not adequate. Certainly, given the concerns that have been raised here around the governance and management structures, we acknowledge they did not work, which is something that, as Mr. Fitzgerald said, is being reviewed in Cork and Kerry. We are also looking at it. As I said, we do have operational guidance-----

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