Written answers
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Department of Health
Mental Health Services Staff
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members and the grades at which they are employed to provide services in respect of child and adolescent mental health services per region in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39897/16]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Detailed information in respect of HSE mental health services is published on a regular basis by the Executive. The most relevant Report in this regard would be "Delivering Specialist Mental Health Services 2014-15", which was produced by the HSE Mental Health Division, and is available on the HSE website at www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/.
While this report indicates data such as staffing levels for community based CAMHS Teams versus those recommended in A Vision for Change, along with other comprehensive staffing details for community or in-patient units, this is broken down by CAMHS grades rather than by region. The report also includes significant information, by each CHO area, relating to CAMHS such as catchment populations, referrals, attendances, waiting lists, in-patient statistics, etc. Detailed information in respect of Mental Health staffing numbers is also available in the monthly Performance Reports, also published on the HSE website, but this is in respect of Whole Time Equivalent figures overall for the care programme, rather than CAMHS specific.
Separate to the above, the HSE collate information on staffing in CAMHS Community Teams according to Community Health Organisation. The latest available figures are for September last, as outlined as follows:
| CHO | Consultant Psychiatrist | Senior Registrar | Registrar/ SHO | Nurse | Social Worker | Clinical Psychologist | Speech & Language Therapist | Occupational Therapist | Other Staff | Other Therapist | Child/ Social Care Worker | Non Nursing | Administrative Support Staff | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.85 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 13.35 | 7.90 | 6.00 | 3.80 | 5.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.70 | 0.00 | 8.60 | 60.10 |
| 2 | 5.90 | 2.00 | 9.00 | 9.10 | 8.80 | 5.60 | 5.00 | 4.90 | 0.00 | 2.40 | 5.64 | 0.00 | 10.50 | 68.84 |
| 3 | 5.80 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 11.00 | 8.80 | 7.40 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 54.00 |
| 4 | 6.89 | 1.10 | 7.49 | 7.71 | 12.77 | 11.32 | 6.45 | 7.19 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 6.89 | 0.00 | 10.99 | 80.30 |
| 5 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 3.70 | 8.80 | 5.90 | 4.20 | 7.80 | 3.00 | 1.50 | 0.45 | 2.80 | 1.00 | 7.45 | 52.60 |
| 6 | 6.54 | 1.42 | 4.60 | 12.00 | 6.80 | 6.92 | 8.60 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 12.10 | 65.48 |
| 7 | 7.10 | 1.50 | 6.00 | 9.10 | 5.30 | 3.12 | 5.60 | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 6.50 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 56.62 |
| 8 | 10.80 | 4.00 | 12.00 | 23.70 | 11.14 | 9.60 | 3.45 | 6.60 | 0.00 | 3.60 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 12.38 | 104.27 |
| 9 | 10.00 | 1.00 | 10.60 | 8.30 | 8.00 | 12.30 | 8.30 | 6.40 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.20 | 72.50 |
| 10 | 63.88 | 11.02 | 63.39 | 103.06 | 75.41 | 66.46 | 52.00 | 45.69 | 3.20 | 6.85 | 38.53 | 1.00 | 84.22 | 614.71 |
The HSE indicate the Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) figures above remain to be finalised in respect of four Community Health Organisation areas, but the Executive estimates that this would relate to an additional 4 WTE’s in CHO 4; 11 in CHO 5; 8 in CHO 7; and 10 in CHO 9. Therefore, the total WTE figure for HSE CAMHS staff nationally would be in the region of 648 posts (i.e. 615 plus 33).
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