Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Joint Committee On Health
Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE
Dr. Amanda Burke:
It is not available everywhere but we are trying to be innovative and that is what I was talking to. Someone can use e-mental health to provide consultations so you could have another health and social care professional with the young person and the consultant at the end of a videolink . Then hybrid could be used so they could meet the young person face to face and develop a relationship with them, and then have review appointments via e-mental health in order that they do not have to travel long distances. We will have to look at that. It is commonplace in other jurisdictions because this is not a problem that is unique to Ireland.