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A review of the evidence around collaborative care is set out in the attached paper by Shivam Shah. Looks at the need for a whole-person approach addressing physical as well as mental health needs.
The new integrated service is to benefit people with low level mental health needs such as mild to moderate depression and anxiety disorders (panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder) in the context of Diabetes and respiratory conditions (COPD and Asthma).
Tracy and Angela spoke about the Visiting GP Service, which was rolled out across our secure services. The service operates from The Forge GP practice in Warrington and is accessible to all service users staying on our low-secure inpatient wards at Hollins Park Hospital.
Tracy and Angela have also implemented a comprehensive physical health database to assist the service in reviewing, monitoring and optimising the health and wellbeing of our patients. The database captures the whole range of physical health needs, including national screening programmes and the safe management of service users with long-term health conditions.
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust empowering teams through training and transforming physical health checks for people with mental health needs
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Parity of esteem means valuing mental health as much as physical health in order to close inequalities in mortality, morbidity or delivery of care. There is clear evidence that patients with mental illness receive inferior medical, surgical and preventive care. This further exacerbated by low help-seeking, high stigma, medication side-effects and relatively low resources in mental healthcare. As a result, patients with severe mental illness die 10–20 years prematurely and have a high rate of cardiometabolic complications and other physical illnesses. Many physical healthcare guidelines and policy recommendations address parity of esteem, but their implementation to date has been poor. All clinicians should be aware that inequalities in care are adversely influencing mental health outcomes, and managers, health-care organisations and politicians should provide resources and education to address this gap. 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.
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.
People with severe mental illness suffer more physical comorbidity than the general population, which can require a tailored approach to physical health care discussions within mental health care planning. Although evidence pertaining to service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning is accumulating, current understanding of how physical health is prioritised within this framework is limited. Understanding stakeholder experiences of physical health discussions within mental health care planning, and the key domains that underpin this phenomena is essential to improve quality of care. Our study aimed to explore service user, carer and professional experiences of and preferences for service user and carer involvement in physical health discussions within mental health care planning, and develop a conceptual framework of effective user-led involvement in this aspect of service provision based on clients, carers & staff at a mental health trust in Manchester.
Service data indicates that from a sample of 102 service users 80.4% had their families involved in their care.
In line with offering a combined healthy eating and physical activity programme the service is also piloting the Supporting Health and Promoting Exercise (SHAPE) physical health intervention programme, which uses the expertise of nutritionists, exercise physiologists and health trainers. It is a structured and intensive 12-week course with follow-up over 12 months, which includes a group educational programme and individually tailored exercises sessions.
The Leicestershire Physical Health Register was developed and trialled in 2013 by a team from the trust:specialist mental health pharmacist Dolly Sud, consultant psychiatrist Dr Manjunath Minajagi and consultant pathologist Dr James Falconer Smith.
The register helps clinicians to ensure they undergo close physical health monitoring by triggering key checks such as key blood test results, weight/BMI, blood pressure and to ask them about smoking, alcohol consumption, substance misuse, diet and exercise.
This article presents to implementation service evaluation/quality improvement initiative in one NHS trust which involved the implementation of the Modified Early Warning Scoring System (MEWS) that enables staff to assess, recognise and respond to the physical health needs of people with mental health problems or a learning disability in an inpatient setting.
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Waddiloves, in Bradford, specialises in helping people with learning disabilities that struggle to access mainstream services, to have their physical health needs met.
Lesley Taylor, clinic lead nurse for the health facilitation team at Waddiloves, said: “We saw that people with learning disabilities that found it difficult to get to routine appointments were not having their health needs met and health conditions that were easily treatable were being missed or going untreated.
“Waddiloves health clinic allows us to plan treatment with a number of specialists all in once place, meaning we can carry our more than one treatment at the same time which is useful for people who might have anxieties towards accessing treatment, such as having their eyes or ears checked, as they only need to attend the once