Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS
Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n:
We do not have specific numbers and we are running off the Mental Health Commission's report which just advised that it is at about 50% of the recommended levels. The most recent national mental health policy did not set out recommended staffing levels so we are working off the previous mental health policy which set out goals for how many staff and CAMHS teams there should be. It was recommending about 126 and we have 74 to 75 CAMHS teams. We are nowhere near the recommended levels.
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