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The trust’s emergency department psychiatry service in Oxfordshire offers support to people who arrive at A&E departments in Oxford and Banbury.
Technology Assisted Psychiatry (TAP) enables speedier consultation and support for patients thanks to video conferencing between the A&E and psychiatrists.
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This service is the first of its kind in the UK and has been co-produced by mental health specialists and clinicians from across the North Cumbria Health and Care System with input from patients and their carers.
The facility is located alongside the acute hospital’s A&E department and will support up to four people at a time. The unit will provide a short term safe therapeutic environment where people in crisis can be assessed and then referred on to the appropriate service, or be discharged into the community. The unit will be accessible for people 24 hours a day and will provide an alternative pathway for people requiring urgent mental health on-going assessment and suffering with mental health difficulties in crisis. Staff will support people to develop coping strategies to help manage their mental health in the futu
Nottinghamshire Healthcare has recently launched a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Liaison Service to help prevent avoidable admissions to hospital. The service will initially run as a pilot for six months and will then be reviewed.
The role of the new team is to ensure under 18s are not admitted to hospital unnecessarily following self-harm, overdose, or thoughts of suicide. They are instead treated in the community, wherever possible.
The team will assess patients in A&E and where possible they will create a safe discharge plan with pre-arranged follow up from the team or from another CAMHS worker. The liaison nurses work closely with paediatric colleagues, community CAMHS teams, Social Care and other agencies as appropriate to ensure young people’s needs are met safely.
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By accepting the grant, Humber has agreed to:
Provide a 24/7 mental health liaison service to Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (HEY), which runs the Infirmary;
Provide a one-hour response time to emergency referrals and a 24-hour response to named acute wards;
Ensure the service meets recommended staffing levels for liaison services.
Two services at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are being nationally showcased as examples of how to provide high quality care for people with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS).
The Leeds Liaison Psychiatry Service and the Yorkshire Centre for Psychological Medicine are featured as case studies in national guidance for commissioners that examines what good services look like.
A service that offers extra support to people arriving at A&E overnight with mental health problems has been launched in Stockport.
The Stockport Early Management Team operates from 9pm-9am, supporting those who go to Stepping Hill Hospital for help due to self-harm, thoughts of suicide, or other mental health issues.
The service, which is nurse therapist-led, provides an alternative route to prevent people waiting in A&E or being admitted to hospital. It provides patients with a thorough assessment of their mental health needs and short-term psychological support.
Consultant liaison psychiatrist Alex Thomson and colleagues James Hughes and Genevieve Holt, from CNWL discuss how a focus on outcomes allows its staff and patients to work together to improve services.
Our alcohol liaison team comprises four clinical nurse specialists who provide a seven day service across two hospitals.2015-02-20_54e760b68cf97_Alcoholliaisonteam.JPG
The team has successfully reduced the rate of increase in alcohol related hospital emergency admissions, reduced the length of stay in hospital for alcohol related issues, and improved access and engagement with primary care and community specialist substance misuse services.
‘Treat as One’, a report from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD)outlines the findings of a recent review of the mental health care provided to patients who are receiving treatment for physical health problems in UK general hospitals.