In its latest inspection of Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation’s specialist community child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), undertaken in July, it found that children and young people “waited a long time to access the service” and clinicians had “high caseloads” which had an impact on their ability to provide “safe care”.
Despite recognising the “significant improvements” that have been made since the last inspection in 2019 - individual ratings for “being effective”, “caring” and “well-led” were boosted from “requires improvement” to “good”- inspectors rated the overall service as “requires improvement”, the same grade given at the previous inspection.
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