HSE Southwest is now expanding its review of children’s mental health services in north Kerry to cover all children seen before November 2022. At the time, the Irish Examiner highlighted calls for that lookback review to be extended further in the north Kerry child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) as well as south Kerry. On Thursday, HSE South West said it is “commissioning a comprehensive clinically-led further file review covering the period during which it had governance of CAMHS in North Kerry". The HSE confirmed the review will start from 2014, when it first took over the CAMHS team in north Kerry. It will also review cases of children or young people where there is evidence of polypharmacy, meaning taking multiple medications.

Source: Irish Examiner March 26, 2026 13:28 UTC