Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Ms Anne O'Connor:
We will be looking at prescribing across all CAMHS services. We are on record as having stated that in the context of carrying out an audit, we have to develop standards to audit against. The Maskey report refers to the need to develop standards in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, guidelines. We will be doing that. We are starting with ADHD because that is where the initial concerns are. We will have standards developed in respect of ADHD and we will also examine prescribing practices relating to non-ADHD. We will not have standards in the same way initially. We will be developing those in the coming year. Part of our plan has been-----