Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Adjunct Prof at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 & University of Oulu 🇫🇮 Academy of Medical Sciences Professor NHS Consultant #DataScience #DataDrivenInnovation #CAMHShttps://bsky.app/profile/iankellehermd.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/iankellehermd.bsky.social/post/3m7pyikhtb22gWhat % of all kids in the UK come to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) at some stage in childhood (0 - 18)? 15 years ago, it was 1 in 17 children. Now it’s a pretty staggering 1 in 5 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/trends-in-annual-and-lifetime-prevalence-of-child-and-adolescent-mental-health-service-use-in-the-uk-between-1991-and-2023-welsh-healthcare-register-linkage-study/656C054AA8171FDFDE77B5437370217911 Dec 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:kdaib2e2dav6kcghcdmev7bo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pyikhtb22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/iankellehermd.bsky.social/post/3lj6dh43lrs25Amazing - well done Louise [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2025 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:kdaib2e2dav6kcghcdmev7bo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6dh43lrs25https://bsky.app/profile/iankellehermd.bsky.social/post/3liwcsqvq7c2v1 in 2 adult mental health service outpatient appointments & inpatient bed days are taken up by former #CAMHS patients Highlights frequently poor mental health trajectories for young ppl who attend CAMHS and need for research on altering these trajectories. Paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/adult-psychiatric-outcomes-of-young-people-who-attended-child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-a-longitudinal-total-population-study/EDED0FCFE10319288C9C7A9878BB771D [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Feb 2025 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:kdaib2e2dav6kcghcdmev7bo/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwcsqvq7c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/iankellehermd.bsky.social/post/3lhl4ahhzhk2qIn the midst of a crisis in youth mental health, more than half of all medical schools in the UK & Ireland do not even have a single professor in child & adolescent psychiatry New in #BJPsych https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/professorships-in-child-and-adolescent-psychiatry-relative-to-a-similarly-sized-medical-specialty-in-the-uk-and-ireland-crosssectional-study/3E5B9AE095E61678B390EB2D4E9BD37C07 Feb 2025 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:kdaib2e2dav6kcghcdmev7bo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhl4ahhzhk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/iankellehermd.bsky.social/post/3lfhl3lc3k22jCheck out the opportunity to work in this pioneering lab @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jan 2025 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:kdaib2e2dav6kcghcdmev7bo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfhl3lc3k22j