Professor Sue Bailey, who started her three-year term of office as president of the college last week, told CYP Now that CAMHS workers must use the NHS reforms to boost investment in child and adolescent mental health and embrace the public health agenda.
"CAMHS need to get out there and go and speak to the health and wellbeing boards and clinical commissioners about what they’re doing and what benefit it is for children at risk of developing a mental illness," she said. "They’ve got to talk about the great outcomes they achieve and why they are worth it. Every CAMHS team needs someone who is in on that clinical commissioning alongside GPs.
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