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. Pat Bennett:

We have standard operating procedures across services that are about bringing about consistency and equity across services. As chief officers, we meet every month to ensure consistency among ourselves. Again, we are working off best practice and our best practice guidelines nationally as well, so there is consistency around that. The Deputy is right. There have been differences in the past but things are far more integrated now across the system. The likes of standard operating procedures help us with regard to having a measure. There has been significant improvement in that area and it is something we are going to continue to develop. It is an evolving process.