Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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That is welcome news going forward. Going back to the systemic failures, there were no complaints on the national risk register, a number of teams expressed the view that it was pointless escalating risk as nothing happened. That is bad practice. This has frustrated some teams to the extent that they told the Mental Health Commission that they did not bother to escalate risk as there was no point at that stage. I have a couple of questions in relation to that. I also have a few questions on the three audits being conducted currently by the HSE into CAMHS on the prescribing practices, the compliance with CAMHS operational guidelines and the research into the service users' experience of CAMHS. Has the HSE identified some of the same concerns that the Mental Health Commission did at this stage?