Summary of official information request
- How many mental health care workers are employed in the district?
- Can this please be broken down by psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, clinical social workers, mental health nurses or other mental health staff?
- How many vacant roles are there currently within the mental health team?
- What are the roles that need to be filled?
- What is the current average wait time for the first appointment with mental health services?
- What is the current average wait time to see a psychiatrist?
- How many people were seen by the district’s mental health services in 2021, and 2022 so far?
- Do you have a priority system in place to determine who needs to be seen most urgently?
- Could you outline the levels and the definitions that align with those priority levels?
- What is the district's definition of a mental health crisis?
- How much funding has been dedicated to districts' mental health services in the past five years?
- Of that total how much has been dedicated to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)?