Mr. Jim Ryan:

I might ask Dr. Doody to answer the CAMHS-specific questions. The secondary care mental health service is being provided through our community mental health teams, our day programmes, our acute inpatient units, our long-stay units and our community residences. They have been affected in a variety of ways. For example, at the moment we are operating at approximately 91% of our pre-Covid capacity on our acute units. We are most challenged in our day programmes and therapeutic programmes, which require much more significant face-to-face contact between patients and clinicians. From that perspective we need to look at creative ways in which we manage that. One of the platforms we use for engagement between clinicians and patients, Attend Anywhere, has proven very helpful and useful.

I ask Dr. Doody to outline the point of view from CAMHS.