Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-25
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Verona Murphy (IND), Wexford

My question, which is for the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, relates to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. In both north Wexford and south Wexford, we do not have a full complement of staff in CAMHS. In recent weeks, as I have raised in the House before, the clinical nurse specialist, who has 13 years' service, moved to the Wexford north service. There was no proper handover and no transfer of his computer or any of the other things he requires. I had a very distressing telephone call this morning from the mother of a patient with anorexia who cannot be seen because of there being no handover, which meant the clinical nurse specialist has no files. A total of 400 patients in north Wexford CAMHS were placed with one clinical specialist while two acting clinical nurse specialists were sent to south Wexford CAMHS, where there are 170 patients. If this is the extent of the planning in CAMHS and the HSE, it is no wonder there is a recruitment and retention problem. Can the Minister of State tell me when this patient with anorexia will be seen?

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Sitting date: 2022-05-25