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Today, we learn that the dysfunction laid bare in South Kerry last year is replicated across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, Inspector of Mental Health Services, Dr Susan Finnerty, was so disturbed by her review of CAMHS that she published an interim report to highlight serious failings in the service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose concerns extend to 140 children \u201clost\u201d in the Midwest CAMHS; children not receiving follow up appointments for up to two years, despite children being on medication; chronic understaffing of CAMHS teams; an increasing reliance on telepsychiatry; and children reaching the age of 18 without being transitioned to adult services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies spoke about their children deteriorating while on waiting lists and being forced to try to seek help from the private healthcare system. One family had to pay \u20ac90 a week to see a private occupational therapist while driving a round trip of three hours to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time that the Government stopped wringing their hands about dysfunction within the health service and actually did something about it. The children who are being failed by CAMHS will not get their childhoods back. It is a national scandal that some children have been seriously harmed by CAMHS, rather than helped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is notable that some of the issues highlighted in this scathing report could be addressed if the Sl\u00e1intecare plan was implemented \u2013 particularly, the implementation of Regional Health Areas. The report notes that Community Health Organisations (CHOs) are unable to plan for the services they need locally because HSE budgets are centralised. Recruitment is also centralised, meaning local services have huge difficulty in hiring the staff they need at the time they need them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Donnelly must now come to the D\u00e1il and answer questions about this latest damning report into CAMHS \u2013 and tell us what he intends to do about it. This is an interim report, but the response from Government must be immediate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>January 23, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time that the Government stopped wringing their hands about dysfunction within the health service and actually did something about it A damning report by the Mental Health Commission has revealed that the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is failing children across the country, according to Social Democrats Health spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall. 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