Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion

Mr. David Walsh:

Yes. In recent years, in partnership with the colleges, we have invested pretty significantly in increasing the number of places, with student nurse places in particular and also training pathways for doctors. We need to get that to translate into staff who graduate and come into our service and stay with us. A key component of what we need to do over the coming period is to focus on targeting on the areas that are not attracting or retaining staff and have much more targeted competitions to attract people to those locations. There is a mix of urban and not-so-urban. For example, even the Linn Dara inpatient service struggles all the time to retain nursing and other staff but also to fill key clinical posts right across the system. That will be a key component of our child and youth mental health plan.

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