Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (NHS Fife)

Part of Portfolio Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament am ar 19 Mehefin 2024.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Paul Sweeney Paul Sweeney Llafur

The Psychotherapy and Counselling Union met me today and raised the point that there are often no other routes of referral apart from CAMHS. Loading pressure on to CAMHS is part of a vicious cycle, which includes cuts to mental health spending across the board in community settings, primary care settings and educational settings. Is that not compounding the pressure that we are seeing, not just in CAMHS but across our mental health services and the NHS?