\n The waits were raised by a member of the public at the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust\u2019s (HIWHNFT) Annual Members Meeting in Eastleigh.\n<\/p>\n
\n On the Isle of Wight, waits for accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) services have previously been described as \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d by health committee councillor Paul Fuller.\n<\/p>\n
\n As of May, the average wait to first contact with Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) services on the Island was 4.3 weeks against a national target of four weeks, according to an NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight report.\n<\/p>\n
\n The attendee at yesterday\u2019s meeting said: \u201cWhat\u2019s happening about CAMHS because I talk to people I know \u2013 they\u2019re waiting so long to get a diagnosis they\u2019re going private \u2013 but when they go private they can\u2019t go back in, can they?\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n In response, Ron Shields, chief executive at HIWHNFT, said: \u201cAs you\u2019re describing and as you know from experience, there are still too many young people waiting for too long.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019ve tried to look at parts of that \u2013 so for example, the biggest element of the waiting list is for those young people with ADHD and looking for a diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn that particular area, what we\u2019re trying to do is to recognise that actually a whole system has been set up on trying to work around a diagnosis and having too many people waiting to be diagnosed is the wrong approach.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe point about movement between private diagnosis and then support is sometimes a challenge; it isn\u2019t the case that people are debarred from service because they\u2019ve sought private opinion but when people are alternating between the two, that sometimes is a challenge.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe always look at it on individual basis, we will always try then to make sure people get the services they need from the NHS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The waits were raised by a member of the public at the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-155805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}