Ian Kelleher: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“This study provides the clearest picture yet of the soaring demand for CAMHS. There has been a seismic shift in the numbers coming to CAMHS but there has been far too little research to understand why this is the case. Contrary to a lot of public discourse, this is not a post-pandemic issue – this trend has been building consistently for over a decade.”
What Ian Kelleher has said
“'This study provides the clearest picture yet of the soaring demand for CAMHS. There has been a seismic shift in the numbers coming to CAMHS, but there has been far too little research to understand why this is the case.'”
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh · Mental health · 30 Sept 2026 · ‘Soaring demand’ for youth mental health services ↗
“We know about long-term outcomes for 27 types of cancer in Scotland, but we've known very little about long-term outcomes for children who attend our CAMHS services because there is no equivalent monitoring system for mental health.”
Chair of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh · Mental health · 30 Sept 2026 · Almost half of child mental health patients need adult specialist care ↗
“A new study my colleagues and I conducted provides one of the most detailed long-term pictures to date of the clinical outcomes for young people who attended Camhs in the UK.”
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh · Mental health · 10 Aug 2026 · Billions are spent on child mental health services without knowing if they work in the long term ↗
Where Ian Kelleher has been quoted
- One in five young people now use mental health services by age 18independent.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- ‘Soaring demand’ for youth mental health servicesnursinginpractice.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Almost half of child mental health patients need adult specialist caremedicalxpress.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Billions are spent on child mental health services without knowing if they work in the long termtheconversation.com · 10 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
- Hotter summers, hidden harmsCentre for Mental Health
- Free fair to connect jobseekers with support servicesHerald Series
- Calls grow for major overhaul of ADHD and autism supportOxford Mail
Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.