Rose Conway-Walsh: Calls for Short Submission on Youth Mental Health
Rose Conway-Walsh asks organisations to provide a short submission on improving health outcomes for young people and their families, focusing on mental health, access and wait times. She highlights existing reports and in-house data, and asks for shared learning on suicide prevention and service access to inform the committee's health report.
Rose Conway-Walsh invited contributors to make a concise submission that can be incorporated into the committee's upcoming health report. The request targets improvements in mental health, physical health access, diagnosis pathways and waiting times affecting young people and families.
She proposed pooling evidence already held by the committee and asked partners to outline practical steps to improve outcomes. The submission should be short and focused, describing both frontline experience and family perspectives to ensure these issues are captured in the health report.
Conway-Walsh noted the committee's existing reports and in-house data systems and offered to consolidate findings. She emphasised sharing experiences across the island to learn from one another on suicide prevention and access to mental health services.
She thanked contributors for their work, commended their efforts, and pledged cross-party committee support, including follow-up visits. The statement closes with a commitment to use pooled evidence to shape better health policy for young people and families.
Summary
Rose Conway-Walsh invited contributors to make a concise submission that can be incorporated into the committee's upcoming health report. The request targets improvements in mental health, physical health access, diagnosis pathways and waiting times affecting young people and families.
What she asked for
She proposed pooling evidence already held by the committee and asked partners to outline practical steps to improve outcomes. The submission should be short and focused, describing both frontline experience and family perspectives to ensure these issues are captured in the health report.
Data and collaboration
Conway-Walsh noted the committee's existing reports and in-house data systems and offered to consolidate findings. She emphasised sharing experiences across the island to learn from one another on suicide prevention and access to mental health services.
Committee support and next steps
She thanked contributors for their work, commended their efforts, and pledged cross-party committee support, including follow-up visits. The statement closes with a commitment to use pooled evidence to shape better health policy for young people and families.
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Transcript
You'll always be welcome, regardless of your constitutional preference, I can assure you of that. I might just ask you before we finish, would you be able to do a short submission on what needs to be done to improve the health outcomes specifically for the young people that you're working with, but also from their families? Because I think that would be really valuable to have within our report on health, just to make sure we capture that in relation to mental health, but also access to health in general and physical health as well. So maybe just a short submission on that. I don't want to give you extra work. No, no, I'm just thinking we can pool, we have quite a lot of reports done and then we have our own in-house system where we collect the data, so I could probably pool comments from some of the reports from that, talking about the length of wait times for access to mental health appointments, the lack of, when it comes to a diagnosis. So that data is already there, so yes, tell me how long is short? We'll do it short and maybe just how the exchanges between different groups, say on the island, can share those experiences around whether it be suicide prevention or access to mental health services as well, so that we can learn from each other and come up with something better. I do really want to thank you for being here today. I was so keen that the committee would learn what I know about the work that you do. I really want to commend you again for the work that you do, encourage you to carry on, and to say that this committee, collectively across party, will do everything that we can to support the work that we're doing and we very much look forward to visiting you. Thank you. Thank you Deputy.