Ms ?ine Lawlor:

We also need national models of service delivery.

On the question of administrative and IT support, that is a huge challenge for clinicians on the ground across our health service. There is a need for more, and more effective, administrative support across our health service because that can streamline what clinicians do and allow them to do clinical work. Outside of that, there is also a need for adequate IT support. I mentioned that we often have children sitting on multiple waiting lists and clinicians spend a huge amount of time researching and figuring out what child is accessing what service and what stage they are at in the process. Adequate IT support would streamline huge amounts of that work but we do not have that. There are plans around PDS IT supports but they are so far out for our service. Our service really is still working with pen and paper which takes up a huge amount of clinicians' time.