Litigation and legal actions are a risk to the viability of HSE health screening programmes, internal health service documents have shown. The warning was given to HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster when he was briefed on the condition of the health service during his first days in the role earlier this year.
Up to 30 beds in mental health units for children and adolescents have had to shut in the past year as the nurses emigration trail resumes, a conference was told today.
Members of the HSE West Regional Health Forum were assured that a ‘Kerry-style’ CAMHS scandal would not engulf young people’s mental health services in Galway, Roscommon and Mayo. Mandy Burke, Executive Clinical Director of Mental Health Services in Galway and Roscommon, confirmed that an independent review of the local CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for mental health said it is “downright scandalous” that some young people are not receiving follow-up care such as essential blood tests.
The "damning" report by the Mental Health Commission into the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) will be debated in the Dáil this Thursday.