Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion
Dr. Brendan Doody:
Again, this is through the national clinical programme. There is a recognition that, given the nature of the condition, the best response to community treatment is through the provision of specialist services. There is a clinical programme which develops specialist community eating disorder services for children and adolescents but also for adults. That programme is being rolled out. We were fortunate that the first child and adolescent community eating disorder service was developed in Linn Dara. Services have also been developed in Cork and there are plans to develop a number of other services, and also to develop services for adults because not all of the people involved are young people.
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