Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

Ms Anne O'Connor:

I will take that and then ask one of my clinical colleagues to come in. In terms of the checks and balances, there is a governance structure within our mental health services. Doctors report up through the medical governance line to clinical directors and, ultimately, to the executive clinical directors. There is the same clinical line of governance that we have in other services. From an organisation-wide perspective, when looking at medical staffing and structures, Dr. Colm Henry and I lead a group that looks at the medical workforce, and, certainly, the non-consultant hospital doctor-----