Party wants to replace Camhs with new service for young people up to the age of 25 employing 84 additional specialist psychiatric teams
Sinn Féin TD Mark Ward. 'If somebody has a dual diagnosis of mental health and addiction they often fall through the gaps.' Photograph: Damien Eagers
The party unveiled its new mental health policy on Thursday with a promise to provide universal counselling, treat mental health at primary and community level, employ consultant liaison psychiatrists and crisis assessment nurses at every emergency department, as well as developing an all-island mother and baby perinatal mental health unit.
A central plank of the new policy is the abolition of Camhs and replacing it with what it describes as an “integrated early-intervention service for children and young people to the age of 25”. The previous upper age limit for Camhs was 18. Mr Ward said that currently young people reaching the age of 18 are falling through the gaps when they are no longer in Camhs.
Mr Doherty said that the initial cost of the policy would be an additional €50 million in the first year but that would rise by another €50 million each year as the programme expanded. He said that by year five the additional budget required for the new services would be €250 million each year .
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