Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Conor Boksberger:

They are interlinked. Personal relationships and capacity within individual services are both required. To manage transitions in the best possible way, the resource within a team is needed. What we hear from individual teams at local level is that they are stretched to even do what needs to be done from day to day well enough and to keep things running. Things like transitions can feel like an extra burden. Teams might be dealing with crises every day and may feel that is where their attention needs to be. There is a resourcing issue and we would see much more coherent development with regard to transition if the whole system was better resourced. If there was more staffing and resources in local services, it would be much easier to-----

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