Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I will ask Dr. Burke to answer that.

First, I want to say that any child waiting for any period is unacceptable. We will start with that but actually, we have made significant progress with the waiting list. We got additional wait-list funding last year and our over-12-month waiters are down by more than 33% and the total waiting list is down by 17%. I am looking at CHO 3 and its waiting list is down 19%. There have been targeted initiatives there. We continue to do targeted initiatives as well as looking at external providers while we are building capacity. We were lucky in CAMHS this year, we did get new development funding, we got 68 posts that were not part of the moratorium. The primary notifications for those have issued. Local areas were allowed to decide for themselves what was most important to them. The mid-west was one of those areas and they got a number of posts that they are progressing at the minute. They have been quite successful. The new public-only consultant contract is bearing fruit in CAMHS and we have had six additional consultant posts in CAMHS since the beginning of the year. The mid-west has benefited from that as well. Things are improving.

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