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Mental health: Urgent action needed on services, committee urges

Stormont’s Department of Health has been urged to give “greater priority to mental health services in Northern Ireland” by an assembly committee.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also said the funding for key services should increase.

The move followed the committee’s inquiry into mental health services, which arose from a report, external published by the Northern Ireland Audit Office ( NIAO) last year.

The Department of Health has told BBC News NI that it “acknowledges the NIAO’s report and fully agrees that mental health services require additional funding”.

Members of the committee asked the department to carry out a review into whether it is providing enough early support to children who need it, including “timely access” to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

It has also asked for an action plan to address “unacceptable” mental health waiting lists.


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