CAMHS

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Child and adolescent mental health targets being missed – Crowe

by Seán Crowe TD

Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has described the recent Health Service Executive (HSE) figures regarding Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) as deeply worrying. The Sinn Féin TD said it is clear that they are not meeting their existing targets and with the leaked HSE plans of a recruitment and overtime ban, this will […]

Mental Health Commission report on mental health services is damning – Crowe

by Seán Crowe TD

Dublin South West TD, Sean Crowe, has described the Mental Health Commission’s report on mental health services as damning. The report, which was published this week, describes the system as ‘unsafe and substandard’ and clearly in disarray. The Sinn Féin TD said the report details a whole litany of systemic failures and it criticises the […]

CAMHS waiting lists putting children and adolescents at risk – Crowe

by Seán Crowe TD

Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has described delays for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) as unacceptable and said that waiting lists were putting children and young people at grave risk. The Sinn Féin TD, a member of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Mental Healthcare, was responding to a recent Barnardo’s […]