Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Mr. David Walsh:

Each of the CHOs is on a point of finalising its own Healthy Ireland plan under the health and well-being banner. Within that, a piece of that is centred on our own staff. We did not run something as sophisticated as that described by Ms Walshe in CHO 7 but we do run wellness clinics for staff fairly regularly using our own psychology staff and sessions to help people deal with stress. The Healthy Ireland plan is putting a structure around it but before that, it was up to each area to do its own thing.