HEALTH NEWS: Wales - Hutt calls for review of CAMHS strategy
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Welsh health minister Jane Hutt has called for a review of the country's child and adolescent mental health services following criticisms in the annual report of the Children's Commissioner for Wales, Peter Clarke.
He said inpatient beds were few or non-existent for some services, there were no adolescent forensic services, and the workforce was dwindling.
The issue of beds will be raised by the CAMHS Implementation Advisory Group next month.
Clarke also criticised the lack of ring-fenced funding. He said: "It is time the Assembly either directly funded its CAMHS strategy or gave up the pretence that it is committed to it."
