Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

I do not have that to hand. We have a complaints policy, Your Services, Your Say, which is the HSE’s formal policy. I do not have it to hand but I will make available the number of complaints and the years concerned with regard to the south Kerry CAMHS service. To answer the second part of the question as to what improvements there have been, thankfully, we have a very significant and challenging but very important roadmap on the 35 recommendations to be put in place. That will help us to improve the service and to take us away from the issues we have had here. Again, whether they be the issues related to governance, oversight or supervision, each of them is dealt with in the key recommendations that are made by Dr. Maskey. We have not waited to go about implementing those particular pieces and, very importantly, we have put in place a co-ordinator of services within the south Kerry CAMHS team, even on an interim basis while we fill it on a permanent basis going forward. That was one of the key recommendations in Dr. Maskey's report.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.