Hi Kieran, if you want to listen to something interesting on the train you can do so at the link below dropbox.com/s/demoiuws5l2n…

2022“Yes Minister”gem No.1: (allegedly at meetings between community and hospital) ‘It’s not fair. We need a few days notice for emergency meetings.” …. O.K. In future could patients attending emergency departments give 24 hours notice BEFORE their heart attack please.

Comhghairdeas faoin bhfoireann nua síciatrach leanaí i Loch Garman. Tá súil agam go gcuideoidh sé an mhuintir iontach atá ann agus na páistí atá ag lorg leighis cuí. Tá súil agam go mbeidh cumas i ngach sórt aicíde néaraisicíatric, go h-áirithe NHEA (ADHD) agus a chúram leigheas.

OK. Back to Twitter for a while (and no I am NOT the Canadian Dr. Kieran Moore. Éireannach go deo! And a medical psychiatrist!

CAMHS débacle. Thanks to Dr. Susan Finnerty and all media for 'outing' the craziness that is "camhs" in this country.

SOLUTIONS? Not that hard: 1. Separate mental ILLNESS from mental health. You do not need a cardiologist to monitor your diet and exercise for a healthy heart. You DO need one when you have a heart attack. Health vs. illness.

You do not need a medical child psychiatrist for your MENTAL HEALTH. You need trained community psychologist or occupational therapist, trained social worker, speech and language therapist etc. You DO need a psychiatrist if you have a psychiatric/mental ILLNESS.

SEPARATE! Non medical for Health. Medical for illness (including MDT,) in centres of excellence/hospitals. Health in community. ("camhs"is a failed entity.) Psychiatry strategy like cancer one. Fitness to practice, cpd for ALL. See patient based only on clinical need not lists.

Lastly - This is about OUR children and their parents and their families and their friends and their dogs and their cats and their sport and their school and their health and their right to enjoy life and US. No one should suffer if we can help. And we can if we do it properly.

Thank You to Kieran Cuddihy (craoltóir den scoth,) and team for asking me to do an interview on ‘CAMHS.’ link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGx58TglXPLe

Another general election with the politicians pounding the streets. General Health provision and housing number one. However almost no mention of mental illness or mental health (they are not the same.) 90% of those dying by suicide have a mental illness. The human cost not to

Yet our “early intervention services” are essentially non-existent, so children don’t get treated and the cycle continues. The health service executive and the government are using Paediatric hospitals as the only Emergency service for children who have psychiatric illnesses,

Yes, barely mentioned in the buildup to the election…,,

The WAY we are ‘managing’ children with a potential diagnosis of autism makes no sense. Of all the conditions that should be assessed and treated by medical consultant paediatric / child and adolescents, autism is the most ‘medical’ in terms of its morbidity (other medical

There is an increased level of genetic, neurological (e.g. epilepsy,) intestinal, sleep, inflammatory, allergic, and psychiatric illnesses/ conditions. Despite this the Irish state tasks clinicians in the autism and disability services to diagnose and treat patients with no

This is another aspect of the way we do things in ireland that must be changed in our children’s interest.

Just listening to the Brendan O’Connor show on RTÉ radio 1. Powerful testimony from people who have had the misfortune to go through the care system in Ireland. Two reflections: 1. Brendan said the problem lies within the “system.” I disagree. “Systems” are set up by human

No doubt many people are sick of hearing about how children with neuro-psychiatric/neuro disability illnesses/difficulties in this country are treated. However do people really understand how managers and clinicians in the health service executive actually treat patients? It

This allegedly happens right across the spectrum of difficulties and the simple truth is that if you are a child with autism / a.d.h.d. in this country who gets overwhelmed as an example and is therefore labelled as having “behavioural difficulties, “(which are absolutely real

Let’s be honest., The current way of doing things is broken. There is plenty we can do to change it, but it requires a sea change in our thinking. Please, let’s do it however. Only patients and their parents know the suffering that comes with all of this.