CAMHS
Please note that this job is NOT approved as a College recognised training post at this time. Consultant – Child & Adolescent Psychiatry MHS Donegal Job Posted: Friday, 24 May 2024 Deadline: 3PM Thursday, 13 June 2024 View information booklet for this post. Informal inquiries: Dr Annmarie Robertson Tel: 074 9120340 Email: annmarie.robertson1@hse.ie […]
Please note that this job is NOT approved as a College recognised training post at this time. Consultant – Child & Adolescent Psychiatry S.I. Psychiatry of Learning Disability CHO 2 Job Posted: Friday, 10 May 2024 Deadline: 3PM Thursday, 30 May 2024 View information booklet here. Informal inquiries: Dr Amanda Burke, Executive Clinical […]
Please note that this job is NOT approved as a College recognised training post at this time. Part-time Consultant – Child & Adolescent Psychiatry x2 Lucena Clinic, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services Job Posted: Friday, 10 May 2024 Deadline: 5PM Tuesday, 21 May 2024 View full job description via PDF here. Informal […]
The Irish Times Opinion section published a letter by Dr Mia McLaughlin, Joint-Chair of the College REFOCUS committee, in which she commented on a recent article by Health Correspondent, Paul Cullen, on the ED at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny. While recognising the progressive and positive innovation and investment in ED services, Dr McLaughlin lamented the […]
College welcomes the report on the HSE National Audit of prescribing in CAMHS, published on Friday, 28th July 2023. The College welcomes the publication of the findings of this report which will provide reassurance to children and their parents/guardians attending CAMHS around the country that levels of prescribing in CAMHS are safe and appropriate. As […]
College welcomes Mental Health Commission report but calls for urgent action to address serious deficits in resourcing and basic administrative and management structures in CAMHS The College of Psychiatrists welcomes the publication of the Mental Health Commission’s review of CAMHS report published today (Independent Review of the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services […]
CPsychI welcomes the appointment of Dr Amanda Burke as Ireland’s first National Clinical Lead for Child and Youth Mental Health. Following the announcement of the new Clinical Lead role as part of the recommendations arising from the Maskey Report, the College commends Minister Mary Butler in the successful funding and delivery of this post, one […]
Professor Fiona McNicholas writes for the Irish Examiner about the critical importance of lacking resourcing for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Ireland, as reflected in the recent interim report by the Mental Health Commission. Read the opinion piece in full below or on the Irish Examiner website here. Crisis in child mental health […]
The below CPsychI press statement was published on 23 January 2022. Read in full below or via PDF here. College of Psychiatrists of Ireland reacts to the Mental Health Commission Interim Report on some CAMHS services Welcoming the report, the College calls for urgent and emergency action to address too many and concerning shortfalls and […]
A ‘complete shift’ in the way Ireland operates its mental health services is needed, say psychiatrists Dr Michele Hill and Professor Mary Cannon, Chair and Vice-Chair of the new CPsychI Youth and Student Mental Health, speak with the Irish Times about soaring numbers of young people presenting to children’s hospitals with self-harm presentations. Professor Cannon […]