Mr. David Walsh:

There are a number of things at play. First, there are two separate services within CHO 7. It is divided between the Linn Dara service and the Lucena Clinic service for CAMHS. I think it goes to the heart of Dr. Finnerty’s report in that both the Lucena Clinic and Linn Dara services do good work but it is a function of all of the available healthcare within that broader area. One of the key takeaways I took from her report was on integration between primary care, mental health services and disability services. Both the disability services and primary care services struggle badly in CHO 7 with being able to recruit and retain staff. The mental health services have similar problems within those areas. Adding those three services together, it becomes very difficult for parents to navigate and get the services they need for their children. My colleagues here today are looking at it from the child and youth mental health perspective but they need to move hand in hand with disability and primary care services so that the whole becomes greater than any of the individual parts. In CHO 7, there are vacancies on many of the children’s disability network teams as well as in public health nursing and at therapy level in primary care services. Even though we continue to try to recruit into all of those services, it is an ongoing issue.