Sligo Councillor questions the level of mental health care being provided to users in north west
A local Sligo Councillor is warning that children and young people are been left behind by the level of service being provided by CAMHS in the northwest. The comments were made by Councillor Thomas Walsh following a HSE response to a motion raised by Sligo County Council in…
Sligo Councillor claims CAMHS service is at breaking point
A local Sligo Councillor is warning that the CAMHS service is at ‘breaking point’ with what has been described as unprecedented level of referrals. Fine Gael Councillor Thomas Walsh is warning that mental health among young people is a major issue that needs to be addressed. The latest…
Leitrim CC to call on government to deal with waiting times for children’s outpatient appointments
Leitrim County Council is to call on the Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Minister for Children Katherine Zappone to provide the necessary resources to deal with the long waiting times for children needing outpatient appointments such as paediatric specialists, speech and language and in the Child and Adolescent…
Over 270 waiting on CAMHS appointments across the north west
275 people in the Donegal, Sligo/Leitrim/West Cavan and Cavan/Monaghan areas were on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services waiting list up as far as last July. That’s according to details released under the Freedom of Information Act, The FOI details include figures for Community Health Organisation area Number 1,…
HSE says efforts to fill six vacant CAMHS posts in Sligo/Leitrim/West Cavan is ‘being progressed’
The HSE says the number of vacant posts in its Child Adolescent and Mental Service in the Sligo/Leitrim/West Cavan region is 6. The HSE was responding to claims about the number of vacancies and the number of children and young people waiting for access to the service. The HSE, in…
Vacant CAMHS posts as young people continue to wait for mental health services
There are 10 vacant fulltime posts in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Sligo/Leitrim. That’s in an area where more than 200 children and young people are waiting for access to the service. Figures released by the HSE in answer to a parliamentary question by Dublin Sinn Fein…
PNA: Young people need to be able to access Mental Health Services faster
The Psychiatric Nurses Association is calling on the HSE to bring in new measures to allow faster access to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The calls come in response to new figures showing an increase in the number of children and young people waiting over a year to…