ProfessorFiona McNicholas is right to highlight the use of appropriate, evidence-based and safe prescribing of psychopharmacological treatment in children is a key treatment option in Camhs.
Against the backdrop of prior CAMHS reviews and prescribing practices nationally, such findings have understandably eroded public confidence in prescribing and warrant careful national reflection.
One of the many questions arising out of the independent review of the north Kerry Child and Adolescent MentalHeath Services (Camhs) is why it appears all but impossible to hire consultant psychiatrists.