Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Dr. Aileen Murtagh:

There were a number of team members whose time was ring-fenced to work on the development of the system.

To come back to the issue of CAMHS inefficiencies, when I was in CAMHS we were given access to computerised programmes for things like scoring questionnaires. One can sit down with four questionnaires and it takes an hour but if one has a computer system, one can score them in five minutes. Even simple little changes like that in CAMHS can make a big difference to one's working day.