Ms Harriet Parsons:

When they transfer from CAMHS to adult services, it is a frightening experience for them. There are a couple of things within the model of care that seek to address that. It involves consistency of transfer of CAMHS to AMHS so that process is done in the same way. One of the HSE training programmes comes from the Maudsley Hospital in London. It is called the first episode and rapid early intervention service for young people with an eating disorder, FREED. The FREED programme deals with people aged 15 to 24. It is a pathway that allows people under 18 to come into a service and be followed through until they are in their 20s. In this model of care, the stepped care approach that is mapped out is trying to address the problems referred to by the Deputy.

If somebody becomes unwell in the community, goes into services, becomes more unwell and has to go into inpatient services, that person is followed in and followed out. In the model of care, this approach tries to follow the person out of inpatient in order that somebody consistently follows the person in and out and not that problem of somebody being discharged into-----