Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 May 2013
94. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the range of mental health services available for adults, adolescents and children across the Dublin/North East Region; if he will outline plans for further developments already signed off on but yet to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22570/13]
View answerThe HSE Dublin North East Region (DNE) covers counties Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan and Dublin North City and County. Mental health services are provided directly by the HSE and by voluntary partners in a variety of settings including acute in-patient facilities, day hospitals and day centres, supported community residences and to service users in their own homes.
The total mental health budget available to HSE DNE for 2013 is €146 million. This figure includes €7.274 million from the additional €35 million funding provided for mental health services in 2013. This funding has been approved to implement the following objectives:
|
Objective |
WTE Allocation |
Full Year Cost of allocation |
|
General Adult Community Mental Health Teams |
40 |
€2,393,560 |
|
Clinical Programme addressing self-harm in Hospital Emergency Departments |
9.5 |
€568,471 |
|
Mental Health Services for Older People CMHTs |
20 |
€1,196,780 |
|
Mental Health Intellectual Disability CMHTs |
10 |
€937,500 |
|
Child and Adolescent Mental Health CMHT |
25 |
€1,626,500 |
|
National Counselling Service, Counselling in Primary Care |
0 |
€551,280 |
|
Total |
104.5 |
€7,274,091 |
The HSE has published a Regional Service Plan for DNE for 2013 which sets out the services to be provided in 2013. The priorities identified in the Regional Plan include: the provision of additional resources for developing and strengthening of the General Adult, Child and Adolescent, Mental Health Intellectual Disability and Psychiatry of Old Age Community Mental Health Teams', (CMHTs), capacity; support the implementation of the Clinical Care Programmes; review and reconfigure current supply of 206 acute in-patient beds across DNE to ensure equity of access and provision; open new 44 bedded Psychiatric Unit at Beaumount (38 Acute General Adult +6 Psychiatry of old age); relocate Regional Psychiatric Intensive Care Service from St Brendan’s to new purpose built 54-Bedded facility at Grangegorman (Phoenix Care Centre); the 12 beds in St Joseph’s Adolescent Unit, Fairview, Dublin, to become fully operational; and progress the closure of old psychiatric hospitals in the area. Details of these and other regional priorities can be found in the HSE Dublin North East Regional Service Plan 2013 at ww.hse.ie/eng/services/Publications/corporate/DNEServicePlan2013.pdf.
