Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Joint Committee On Health
Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE
Dr. Amir Niazi:
It is one of our clinical programmes which allows us to develop teams in adults as well as in children. We have already developed five teams in adults; we need to develop more to reach almost 20. In the model of care, it states about 12 teams in children. We have started the first team in Dublin. In the coming years, this is an area we will be investing in, definitely. It is not medical; it includes the whole holistic approach. The evidence base states that if you step in early, you can avoid somebody becoming chronic later. There is an economic model also attached to it. That is something we will be investing in over the coming years.
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