Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE

1:30 pm

Ms Anne O'Connor:

A start-up team for CHO 6, CHO 7 and part of CHO 8, which is the CAMHS southside area, has been funded. There is also an adult service on the southside. We targeted the south side of Dublin for CAMHS and adult services. That is partly to do with the fact that St. Vincent's Hospital has a history of eating disorder service provision. Part of the challenge with eating disorders is that it has to be connected into acute services as well. We are looking to work in Cork too and the clinical lead for eating disorders is based there. We are looking to enhance hub and spoke models where a hub is based close to an acute hospital with a specialism in gastroenterology, and the spokes are the community services.