Funding awarded to 6 projects to test models that improve access to health services for people with both mental ill health and drug and alcohol dependency needs.
Towns with high rates of homelessness are set for investment in specialist mental health care, as part of NHS services for rough sleepers across the country.
The NHS-funded services in seven parts of the country will bring in new psychiatrists, psychologists and other experts to offer homeless people advice and treatment to tackle underlying mental ill health.
The Community Mental Health Framework describes how the Long Term Plan’s vision for a place-based community mental health model can be realised, and how community services should modernise to offer whole-person, whole-population health approaches, aligned with the new Primary Care Networks.
xtended appointments with mental health experts from the NHS, social care and specialist third sector organisations, plus access to therapies, physical health checks and pharmacists, are just some of the wider expertise patients will be able to access in their local GP practice and in the community under new ways of working. Patients will be able to explore the situation affecting their wellbeing – whether that is an ongoing mental or physical health problem, loneliness, debt, or other issues. They can then be guided to appropriate resources that may help, including talking therapies, benefits advice, or an introduction to a local community group.
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Open access. Many people diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar or other psychoses in England receive the majority of their healthcare from primary care. Primary care practitioners may not be well equipped to meet their needs and there is often poor communication with secondary care. Collaborative care is a promising alternative model but has not been trialled specifically with this service user group in England. Collaborative care for other mental health conditions has not been widely implemented despite evidence of its effectiveness. We carried out a formative evaluation of the PARTNERS model of collaborative care, with the aim of establishing barriers and facilitators to delivery, identifying implementation support requirements and testing the initial programme theory.
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Police officers are increasingly being used as the service of default in responding to people with mental health problems, a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services has confirmed.
The survey published today (Thursday 22 November) highlights concerns around access to care, care planning and support for people with mental health conditions in relation to physical health needs, financial advice or benefits.
Open access. Street triage services are increasingly common and part of standard responses to mental health crises in the community, but little is understood about them. We conducted a national survey of mental health trusts to gather detailed information regarding street triage services alongside a survey of Thames Valley police officers to ascertain their views and experiences.
The article focuses on the National Healthcare Service (NHS) primary care services. Topics discussed provide patients with their first point of contact with the healthcare system; gives the illusion and a range of services that can meet the client's needs; and have less satisfied staff, low retention rates and burnout, as well as clients with less satisfactory outcomes.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
This study identified service characteristics associated with quality of care in specialist mental health supported accommodation services that can be used in the design and specification of services.
“West Cheshire’s crisis café will include a home treatment assessment area which will be staffed by professional mental health workers who can help people in crisis find a path to recovery and reduce the need visit A&E.”
Crisis cafés offer a drop-in service for people when they need urgent mental health support. In West Cheshire, it is anticipated that specially-trained peer support workers will operate alongside an enhanced Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
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Quarterly data on number of patients on Care Programme Approach (CPA) followed up within 7 days of discharge from psychiatric inpatient care, and gate keeping inpatient admissions by Crisis Resolution Home Treatment (CRHT) teams.
High resource expenditure on acute care is a challenge for mental health services aiming to focus on supporting recovery, and relapse after an acute crisis episode is common. Some evidence supports self-management interventions to prevent such relapses, but their effect on readmissions to acute care following a crisis is untested. We tested whether a self-management intervention facilitated by peer support workers could reduce rates of readmission to acute care for people discharged from crisis resolution teams, which provide intensive home treatment following a crisis.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The Mental Health Triage Car Scheme involves mental health professionals providing on the spot advice to police officers who are dealing with people in crisis. This can include an opinion on a person’s condition, or appropriate information sharing about a person’s health history.
The aim is, where possible, to help police officers make decisions, based on a clear understanding of the background. This has led to people receiving appropriate care more quickly, better outcomes and a reduction in the use of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act – an emergency power which allows the police to take a mental health sufferer to a place of safety.
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The Triage Car initiative is shortlisted under the 'Mental Health and Learning Disabilities' category with a submission titled: 'Triage Car Action Plan (TCAP) Joint Agency Positive Outcomes for Complex Individuals.'
This project aims to ensure any member of the public who is believed to have a mental health issue and is in frequent conversation with the police is referred to the most appropriate partner agency to provide effective care.
Intensive community treatment to reduce dependency on adolescent psychiatric inpatient care is recommended in guidelines but has not been assessed in a randomised controlled trial in the UK. We designed a supported discharge service (SDS) provided by an intensive community treatment team and compared outcomes with usual care.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The present study examines the services at community mental health service clinics (CMHCs) from the perspectives of providers and consumers.
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The DRRT is a community-based service that aims to improve the health and well-being of people with dementia at times of crisis, by delivering rapid assessment and intensive support. By providing support in people’s homes, the team aims to reduce the need for admission into specialist dementia hospital beds, reducing the disruption and confusion that can be created by hospital admission.
The DRRT is provided by a multi-disciplinary team which includes mental health nurses, psychiatrists, occupational therapists and health care assistants
On Tuesday 14 November, our ‘voluntary attendance pilot’ was launched in Reading by us and the Howard League.
The new scheme aims to intervene and help people at the earliest opportunity, including pre-arrest and on voluntary attendance/interview at a police station if suspected of a criminal offence, before being charged. Traditionally, resources have been focused in police custody suites and magistrates’ courts, where people are arrested, charged and sentenced. This approach will assess the needs of the people who are at risk and prevent them getting into trouble in the first place.
50 paramedics shadowed the Community Independence Service’s (CIS) staff over the past month, in a collaboration aimed at providing alternative care to patients who might otherwise be taken to hospital unnecessarily.
The Alternative Care Pathway was developed by North West London Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups (NWCCGS), the London Ambulance Service (LAS), and North West London Intermediate Care providers, and instead proposes that patients - for some conditions - are referred to services like CIS’s Rapid Response Team, if this is appropriate.
This means that patients don’t go to hospital, unless they need to and are supported at home.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has opened a new facility which will provide a place of safety at Royal Preston Hospital in Central Lancashire. The facility will support young people under the age of 19 who come in to contact with the police and are experiencing mental ill health.
The Rigby Suite is a 24 hour facility that provides place of safety and de-escalation for young people for a period up to 72 hours. The unit will allow staff to conduct a full assessment of any mental health needs and will support signposting on to appropriate services following the assessment including an inpatient admission or community mental health services where required. The Trust has worked in collaboration with service users to choose the name and influence the colour schemes and furniture.
The time following discharge from psychiatric hospitalisation is a high risk period. Rates of hospital readmission are high and there is increased risk for homelessness and suicide. Transitional and post-discharge support programs have demonstrated positive results in terms of enhanced wellbeing, improved connection with community-based services and, in some cases, reductions in hospital re-admission. This paper reports on the outcomes of a peer-delivered post-discharge support program.
With almost 2,000 support sessions delivered over the year, Haven offers one-to-one, group and telephone support. The service is designed for people to access the support they need, develop their plans to stay well and cope better with distress in the future – and plays a vital role in identifying crisis triggers early and preventing a crisis from escalating.
Haven runs alongside the First Response service; safer space, a homely and welcoming overnight place for vulnerable children and young people, aged under 18, to visit in emotional distress or crisis from 10pm-10am, run in partnership with Creative Support; The Sanctuary, a night-time mental health service, which is open from 6pm-11pm, based at Mind in Bradford, all can be accessed through the Trust’s First Response 24-hour service.
Open access. NHS England recently published a national plan to develop community services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism who display challenging behaviour by using resources from the closure of a large number of hospital beds. An ambitious timescale has been set to implement this plan. The bed closure programme is moving ahead rapidly, but there has been little progress in developing community services to support it. This paper discusses the impact of the gap between policy and practice on the care and safety of patients with intellectual disabilities and forensic needs who form a distinct subgroup of the target population and are being disproportionately affected by this government policy.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), in partnership with a variety of other local organisations, will be touring the area between Monday 17 and Saturday 22 July to promote wellbeing and reduce stigma around mental illness.
The ‘Mental Wellbeing Roadshow’ will visit two towns and villages each day to give Trust staff and partner organisations the chance to connect with rural communities and listen to people’s views.
The tour will focus on prevention and reaching people at an early stage so that they can be signposted to the right place for help. It will also give people the chance to find out more about local sources of support as well as Improving Services Together, NSFT’s strategy for service user and carer involvement which aims to place service users and carers at the heart of decision making.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Liaison and Diversion Service offers support to people of all ages who are attending a police investigation centre, magistrates or crown court and have vulnerabilities such as mental health or substance misuse issues or learning disabilities.
Run by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) alongside partners Julian Support and military charity Walking With The Wounded, it has proved so successful since its launch in April 2015 that NHS England has awarded it an additional £193,000 in funding to expand its service provision. The money is being spent recruiting additional staff so that the service provided in six police investigation centres across Norfolk and Suffolk can work between 8am and 7pm, seven-days-a-week.
Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) can provide effective home-based treatment for acute mental health crises, although critical ingredients of the model have not been clearly identified, and implementation has been inconsistent. In order to inform development of a more highly specified CRT model that meets service users’ needs, this study used qualitative methods to investigate stakeholders’ experiences and views of CRTs, and what is important in good quality home-based crisis care.
This study examined the nature, extent and perceived quality of the support provided by community mental health teams for older people (CMHTsOP) to care home residents. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
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This [geographically based directorates] will bring together our adult mental health services, older person’s mental health services and adult community services, enabling us to integrate our services further and improve working with partners in the boroughs.
We are making some changes to the way we deliver our community based mental health services for adults, bringing together all of the current teams into ten ‘Local Mental Health Teams’.
The Local Mental Health Teams will continue to offer access to the same specialist care, delivered by the same clinical staff, but will be based together
The Care Programme Approach was introduced in England to ensure services met the needs of people with mental health problems and a concurrent learning disability (dual diagnosis). The CPA implementation was patchy and services failed to work in partnership. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The Recovery Cafés – which are being launched by London based charities Hestia and CDARS open their doors on Friday, 7 April.
This innovative new service will complement the diverse portfolio of mental health services provided, supporting individuals in mental health crisis to reduce their immediate anxiety, formulating individual plans to support their mental health and thereby reducing the likelihood of requiring assistance from local accident and emergency services.
Parents and their babies can now access a new drop-in to meet with others and to talk to a specialist about their mental and emotional health.
The prop-in is for parents and babies under the age of one to meet and will be facilitated by a Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Specialist working for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Along with changing the way appointments are made, the
service introduced text, postal and telephone reminders to reduce the number of appointments missed because they were forgotten.
Now the service is exploring the introduction of a text cancellation option for patients so their appointment slots can be offered to
others and they can be given an alternative more promptly.
Closure of Acute Day Hospital and expansion of Home Treatment Team including range of group treatments including art therapy, talking treatment groups and rolling programme of education and advice sessions.
ecovery staff in Milton Keynes are going “mobile” to check on the physical health of people with mental health conditions.
They are visiting patients from community mental health services at their homes to take various health checks, such as blood pressure, blood tests and discussing lifestyle choices at the same time as care co-ordinators visit patients to check their mental health.
The aim is to support people to adapt to the idea of having physical health checks in mental health services.
This quality standard covers community engagement approaches to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, and initiatives to change behaviours that harm people’s health. This includes building on the strengths and capabilities of communities, helping them to identify their needs and working with them to design and deliver initiatives and improve equity.
Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service (THEIS) provides high quality, skilled care and support to adults experiencing a first episode of psychosis and their families. The Tower Hamlets Early Detection Service (THEDS) is an innovative team working alongside THEIS to identify and support individuals who are at high risk of developing psychosis, in order to bring down duration of untreated psychoses in the borough, build resilience and prevent development of symptoms where possible.
First Response service offers mental health crisis support 24 hours a day, seven days a week to vulnerable people needing urgent crisis support. Accessed through a single phone number people in crisis can ring for help from trained staff, who can identify the most appropriate course of action.
It is fast approaching two years since Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust first launched the First Response service, which offers mental health crisis support 24 hours a day, seven days a week to vulnerable people needing urgent crisis support.
LYPFT South CMHT has been progressive and innovative in their thinking. This is in terms of developing links with their third sector agencies in delivering Mental Health support in the community, through the evolving role of the Creative Practitioner.
The role of the Creative Practitioner is to work in a collaborative manner with users of services and community organisations, in taking a holistic approach to someone’s mental health needs.
The increased complexity of community mental health services, and associated fragmentation of traditional dividing lines between services, has underscored the centrality of care continuity and coordination in modern mental healthcare. However, clarification of the key features of the care continuity concept has proved difficult and a consensus has not been reached. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Today, outpatient psychiatric care is commonly referred to as “medication management” and is often delivered in 15- to 20-minute visits by psychiatric care providers who receive little workflow support from technology or medical assistants. This Open Forum argues that this current state of psychiatric care delivery is a problem, comments on how psychiatry got here, and suggests that, through reframing and redesign, psychiatric professionals can improve care for those delivering and for those receiving this needed service. : Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Southampton EIP service places a strong emphasis on improving referrals. All urgent cases are co-worked with the crisis team and there is a 10-day waiting time for routine assessment through a single point of entry. Support is also offered throughout the evening and weekends.
The service offers a range of additional services tailored to both the service user and their carer.
The Leeds EIP service, ‘aspire’, is aimed at young people aged 14–35 who are experiencing first episode psychosis.
The key principles of the service are engagement, hope and recovery.
The service, which is delivered by Community Links, and as such is a rare example of a third sector provider.
The major restructure will mean that the Trust will be able to offer GPs in central Norfolk and Norwich (City) direct links with locally-based and named mental health professionals.
With these mental health staff attending GP practices, they can then work together to provide more immediate assessment of people who may have complex mental health issues, and ensure a faster referral is made into appropriate secondary mental health services, when clinically required.
Debbie White, Director of Operations for NSFT said: “The community mental health teams will also have the ability to offer appointments in many GP practices rather than expect patients to travel to outpatient clinics further afield, so they can be treated closer to home and in more familiar surroundings.
A service which takes expert help and peer support directly to veterans who are facing a mental health crisis is proving a success after helping save six lives within its first four months.
The Veteran’s Response Partnership (VSP) launched in October and sees a special response car, manned by experienced volunteers, attending incidents in Norfolk and Waveney which involve veterans with mental health problems.
The service has already had a big impact, helping six people who were about to take their own lives and providing the right support in 98% of cases to keep people in their own home without the need for any further medical intervention.
Mental Health Street Triage is a partnership between the Trust, Bedfordshire Police, East of England Ambulance Trust, Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Luton Clinical Commissioning Group and mental health charities Mind BLMK and the Samaritans.
Gail Dearing, ELFT’s Bedfordshire Mental Health Street Triage lead: “The focus of the street triage partners is to make sure people experiencing a mental health crisis get the right care at the earliest possible opportunity.
The service will provide an advice and guidance service to all health professionals, support to women already using secondary mental health services where psychiatric disorder predates pregnancy and is expected to continue beyond, plus new referrals of perinatal presentations.
Co-developed with people who have experienced psychosis, clinicians, managers and commissioners; the EIP Matrix is an online app that allows Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams to get real time feedback on their:
1. NICE Concordance;
2. Performance and Outcomes;
3. Workforce
Vulnerable drug users will be given additional support to access treatment services thanks to a new partnership which will see mental health staff work alongside police to take help direct into people’s homes.
From Monday (23 January), nurses from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and officers from Norfolk Constabulary will together visit the homes of drug users where there is a suspicion that out-of-county drug dealers have taken over the property.
The exciting new service, funded by a number of mental health commissioners and the Office of Police and Crime Commissioners, launched on 15 December 2016 operating between the hours of 15:00 and 23:00. It will see mental health nurses and paramedics support police officers to incidents where it’s believed people need immediate mental health support.
When healthcare failings occur there could be a need to consider the removal of a clinical environment from student nursing placement circuits. The decision to rest a clinical learning environment as a student education placement resulted in the need for a mechanism to support the process and so an algorithm was devised. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The Lotus Assessment Suite, which was opened by Justine Greening MP on 18 November, is an innovative new unit which will help to improve the overall experience of mental health patients in crisis and help reduce the demand on A&E departments locally.
The unit provides a safe and calming environment for those in crisis away from A&E. This will allow mental health staff to undertake in-depth and informed assessments of more complex patients who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
Referrals to the Lotus Assessment Suite will come from Home Treatment Teams, Liaison Psychiatry services working within local acute hospitals and Mental Health Street Triage teams in partnership with the police and ambulance services.
South West London and St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is delighted to announce that it will be opening two Crisis Recovery Cafes in partnership with third sector organisations, scheduled to launch in April 2017.
These cafes will provide an accessible and normal café environment in south west London operating in the evenings and weekends where people who feel they are in mental health crisis can attend and receive peer support as an alternative to presenting at Emergency Departments.
People experiencing low mood in Durham and Teesside could benefit from a pilot study seeing community pharmacies deliver psychological support.
David Ekers, TEWV nurse consultant, has secured nearly £500,000 of funding from the National Institute for Health Research to evaluate the effectiveness of training pharmacy staff to deliver psychological therapies to people living with long-term physical health conditions and low mood.
The Community pHarmaciEs Mood Intervention STudy (CHEMIST) plans to recruit 130 research participants for a randomised controlled trial. The trial will test the impact of pharmacy delivered interventions, compared to usual care delivered by mental health specialists.
The police liaison scheme is run in Kirklees and Calderdale and involves mental health nurses working alongside officers at Halifax and Huddersfield police stations to recognise the signs of mental illness. This ensures fewer people with mental health conditions are placed on Section 136 of the Mental Health Act, held in a cell or admitted to A&E when there are more appropriate ways of providing health care for them. The scheme also enables practitioners to visit victims and witnesses at home and support police officers at the scene of an incident.
Our services will be provided through either a core or enhanced pathway, accessed through a single point of contact (SPA). The SPA will help service users and GPs to easily access a range of mental health services, and improve the way referrals are managed and received.
People who are experiencing a mental health crisis now have an alternative to A&E as a local health provider links in with national charity to launch a new service.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust is working in partnership with Richmond Fellowship to open a crisis house in Lancashire to provide emergency accommodation for people in mental health crisis.
Crisis Resolution Teams (CRTs) provide short-term intensive home treatment to people experiencing mental health crisis. Trial evidence suggests CRTs can be effective at reducing hospital admissions and increasing satisfaction with acute care. When scaled up to national level however, CRT implementation and outcomes have been variable. We aimed to develop and test a fidelity scale to assess adherence to a model of best practice for CRTs, based on best available evidence.
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with West Yorkshire Police, is supporting six of its staff to be trained as special police officers and go out on patrol with regular officers to improve the care of individuals in mental health crisis.
Our Trust has worked with public sector services to make sure there are trained professionals available to deliver timely assessments as well as providing trained mental health workers in the police call centre to help prevent unnecessary police deployments.
An on-street assessment by a specialist team has been shown to more than half the number of police detentions under the Mental Health Act and potentially save large health trusts £1 million a year.
Street Triage is a service that comprises a mental health nurse working alongside a dedicated police officer in mobile community units.
The initiative enables the police and the NHS to work collaboratively to make sure an individual gets the best care possible when concerns about their mental state are reported to officers.
Experts at Newcastle University, publishing in BMJ Open, found the annual rate of detentions under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act reduced by 56% in the first year Street Triage was introduced.
The L&D service offers support to people of all ages who are attending a police investigation centre, magistrates or crown court and have vulnerabilities such as mental health difficulties, substance misuse issues or learning disabilities.
Staff will quickly identify people who could benefit from support and refer them as appropriate. The service operates seven days a week, and provides help in a wide variety of areas, including education, employment and mental health, with the aim of reducing the chance of re-offending in the future.
A pioneering shop in Doncaster town centre which provides drop-in advice and support for people experiencing issues with their mental health has been praised as best practice within the NHS.
The Talking Shop at 63 Hall Gate, which is run by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH), provides access to psychological therapies for common problems such as depression, panic and phobias, as well as free information and advice. It was recently named as the best practice example of how regions are helping to provide high street access to therapy without stigma by NHS England.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare officially opened Beacon Lodge, a new 12 bedded step down unit for people recovering from an acute phase of mental illness, delivered in partnership with Turning Point, at a special event on 5 October.
ver £300,000 of community funding has now been earmarked for a variety of organisations and groups that help people manage their mental health problems across Lincolnshire.
The beneficiaries all belong to the county’s innovative Managed Care Network, a collection of community groups which offer support through various activities to help people recovering from mental ill health.
Funding comes direct from the Mental Health Promotion Fund, which was established by Lincolnshire County Council and is managed by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
In total, 46 projects have benefitted from a share of funding this time around and themes include everything from local social and friendship groups, sports coaching and physical activities through to creative therapy and support for carers.
In 2013 the Mental Health Partnership Board (MHPB) was formed to develop best practice and partnership between the Met Police and Mental Health Services in London. One of only two stated priorities was to reduce the number of times people in crisis are taken into police custody when in need of a safe space – the figures now average less than one person a month.
“Our ambition was to work with the police to stop the practice of taking people in mental distress to police cells and instead ensure they are taken to an appropriate environment to assess their needs and give them access to the right support quickly.” says Maria Kane, a member of the Cavendish Square Group and the lead liaison between the NHS in the capital and the Metropolitan Police.
In 2014, BSMHFT and Public Health Commissioners in Solihull began a trial to reach out to people living poor mental health to deliver NHS Health Checks as part of their mental health care, with astonishing results.
In an initiative supported by both 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, the premises will enable adults to access support, therapy and advice for up to two weeks.
Dr Donna Lovell, Chief Executive Officer of Swindon Mind, said: “We have experience of running a similar wellbeing house in another part of the country. The service can prove to be a lifeline for people who might be experiencing the early stages of mental health crisis or for those who are experiencing emotional distress.
“We have learnt that sometimes people in emotional distress require a temporary place to stay away from their home but that a hospital environment or medical intervention is not always the best option.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and mental health charity Mind in Cambridgeshire have teamed up to offer a new safe haven for those experiencing a mental heath crisis in Peterborough.
The Sanctuary will open on Monday, 19 September to allow people to get practical and emotional support.
The move marks the start of the latest stage of the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard programme in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
NHS organisations together with local authorities, police and representatives from the third sector have combined to launch a number of projects aimed at improving the way urgent mental health care is delivered and to reduce the pressures on accident and emergency departments.
Early intervention for psychosis (EIP) is a model of service delivery that aims to support young people with first-episode psychosis by providing the best available treatments, supporting recovery and preventing relapse. In this editorial, we review the evidence for EIP, how the model has developed since its inclusion in the NHS policy implementation guideline for mental health in 2001, challenges and areas of ongoing debate, and future development. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Health services face the challenges created by complex problems, and so need complex intervention solutions. However they also experience ongoing difficulties in translating findings from research in this area in to quality improvement changes on the ground. BounceBack was a service development innovation project which sought to examine this issue through the implementation and evaluation in a primary care setting of a novel complex intervention.
Methods
The project was a collaboration between a local mental health charity, an academic unit, and GP practices. The aim was to translate the charity’s model of care into practice-based evidence describing delivery and impact. Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) was used to support the implementation of the new model of primary mental health care into six GP practices. An integrated process evaluation evaluated the process and impact of care in northern England..
“These local hubs mean we’re bringing our service into the local community close to where people live, making it as easy as possible for them to get the help and support they need.”
He added: “We’re developing a timetable of activities at all our hubs including group and one-to-one work, arts and crafts, as well as mutual aid groups using our acclaimed volunteer and peer mentor programme.
“We’re also able to offer links to local gyms, health and fitness, education and employment opportunities via our employment and education workers.”
A 12 month pilot will see mental health professionals from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust based at the Rochdale Police Station.
They will work alongside a dedicated police co-ordinator to help identify and engage with people with mental health needs who routinely come into contact with the police services.
MCRRT partners a police officer with an experienced mental
health crisis worker and differs from typical secondary response
crisis services in that the team is dispatched and responds to 911 crisis calls as first responders. Login at top righthand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text . SSOTP -You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Recent years have seen a substantial increase in the use of crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) teams as an alternative to psychiatric in-patient admission. We discuss the functions of these services and their effectiveness. Our research suggests high rates of suicide in patients under CRHT. Specific strategies need to be developed to improve patient safety in this setting
An employment support scheme for people receiving treatment for first episode psychosis helped more than half into full-time education, jobs or work placements and improved self-esteem.
Vulnerable people needing urgent mental health crisis support are to benefit from a dedicated new service –‘Haven’, which launches on 9 August 2016 for people in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven. The new service will ensure people get the right care, in the right place, with the right health or social care professional, close to home.
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, The Cellar Trust and Bradford Metropolitan District Council have been working in partnership to open the new project as a safe, specialised and supportive place in the local community for those in mental distress to visit as an alternative to the A&E department.
Transformation of secure adult MH services to focus more on rehab and community care. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.