Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n:

We were talking to members recently and many of the people who go down the complaints process are the people who are already within CAMHS, but there seems very little option to complain or get a second opinion if a person is just refused access to the service. We have a member who looked into that recently because the decision on being accepted into the service is made by the consultant psychiatrist, so it is made by one person. I have never heard of anyone doing it, but one can ask for another consultant psychiatrist to look at the issue, but it is dependent on that consultant psychiatrist accepting and they already have too much on their plates. We have never heard of anyone having any success going down that route.