Dr. Niall Muldoon:

It is something we do continuously. “A Piece of my Mind” contains words directly from children and the interesting piece in that was 12% of the children we surveyed had contact with CAMHS, but CAMHS continues to tell us that it only sees 2% of the nation's children.

There are a lot more children going into the CAMHS service than possibly need to be there. We need to go to primary care and say, "Why are they going to CAMHS?", because there is nowhere else to go.

Reiterating what Dr. Corrigan said, if I was running a restaurant where the feedback from my customers was, first, that for 47% it took too long to get in; second, when they got in, we did not listen to them properly; and third, those who did listen dismissed them. That is what our children are saying about our CAMHS services.