Ms Claire Mortell:

We need to take the learning from teams that have full capacity, in terms of their recruitment. We see that a lot in our section 38 and section 39 teams which, historically, have strong clinical governance structures already in place. That is attractive to new therapists coming in, knowing that they have access to clinical supervision, CPD and somebody who will support them with their career development. What Ms Lawlor alluded to in the HSE has raised a lot of challenges and our members have communicated that to us. In terms of retention, they feel that there is not that support network there from a clinical governance perspective. That is definitely an issue but there are learnings to be taken from teams that are functioning at capacity as to how they are retaining staff and the reasons for staff wanting to work in those particular teams.