An NHS England scheme to transform care for millions of people is being rolled out to six new areas across England, including Birmingham and Solihull.
The Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme is aimed at joining up health, social care and other services, including the voluntary and charity sectors, to help people, carers and families have more control over their care needs.
Joining the sites that have led the development of IPC over 2015/16 (Demonstrators), and supported by the IPC Emerging Framework (published May 2016), a number of “Early Adopters” for IPC became part of the programme in December 2016. Each Early Adopter consists of local partnerships across health, social care and the voluntary sector. The recruitment of Early Adopters represents the first stage of national roll-out.
A psychological treatment programme offered to teens in Milton Keynes with complex and challenging mental health problems over the past year is showing early signs of success, say CNWL doctors.
An initial analysis of figures for the treatment – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) – show an improvement in the mental health of the young people who have successfully completed the full six-month programme, including a reduction in the rates of self-harm.
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.
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, today (Monday 9 January) delivered the annual Charity Commission Lecture where she announced a series of measures to "transform mental health support".
As part of this, she has asked the Care Quality Commission to lead "a major thematic review of children and adolescent mental health services across the country" to identify what is working well and what is not.
CQC will take forward this work in discussion with other agencies and inspectorates, and expects to report on its findings in 2017/18.
The emergence of evidence-based psychological treatments (EVPTs) is a scientific success story, but unfortunately the application of these empirically supported procedures has been slow to gain ground in treatment-as-usual settings. This Open Forum commentary argues that direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing, which has worked well in communicating the advantages of various medicines, should perhaps be considered for use in social marketing of EVPTs. DTC marketing of pharmaceuticals is a long-standing advertising strategy in the United States. In fact, DTC marketing of psychotropic medicines is quite a success story. The authors recommend various strategies for using marketing science to devise DTC advertising of EVPTs, discuss previous research on DTC campaigns, and describe initiatives launched in the United Kingdom and Europe to promote EVPTs. Suggestions for evaluating and regulating DTC marketing of EVPTs are included. Finally, the potential for DTC marketing of EVPTs to increase mental health literacy and reduce health disparities is explored. 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.
Following a review, including patient and carer experiences, four objectives were formed. First, there should be a fully integrated person-centred care pathway. Second, that early diagnosis should be made by a specialist memory clinic, with a clear referral pathway and a person-centred, ‘One Stop’ approach. Third, all GPs should be made able to make a diagnosis in the moderate to later stages of the illness. Fourth, that all patients should have consistent access to evidenced-based interventions wherever they were diagnosed
The redesign process was at all times in consultation with patients and carers, GPs, the voluntary sector and with reference to best practice. Project groups of clinicians from each organisation and locality were set up to design and deliver the new integrated service which was implemented across Devon nine months later.
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
The Trust has been shortlisted in recognition of a project that aims to meets the unmet health needs of patients with medially unexplained symptoms. The project led by Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Frank Röhricht and Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Nina Papadopoulos developed a holistic care pathway in GP Surgeries for patients with MUS. This including the identification, assessment, engagement and group Interventions using Mindfulness Stress Reduction (MBSR) and an innovative Body Oriented Psychological therapy (BOPT). Patients who participated in the project gained significant improvements in symptom levels and subsequent reduction in health care utilisation.
Open access. Linkage of routinely collected data from public services has the potential to improve how local health, education and social care are delivered to children. All mental health services, hospital-based child health services, schools and child protection services which serve the same local area could be more efficient if the design, monitoring, targeting and integration of services were based on data. Health services need evidence from the populations that they serve to plan care and know whether they are meeting children's needs, duplicating effort or allowing some children to fall through the net. In this paper, we describe how the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) programme has joined up data from health, education and social services for children living in four local authorities in South London to create two datasets: one linking hospital to children's mental health services and the second linking mental health data to education data. We describe these resources, give examples of how they are being used to improve services and discuss what is needed to implement this approach more widely across the UK.
Children and young people in North East Lincolnshire can now benefit from online mental health counselling, thanks to partnership working between LPFT and XenZone's innovative Kooth service.
Kooth provides free, year-round support from qualified professional counsellors, available to those aged 11 to 25 and all accessible via a PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
The anonymous, stigma-free service offers immediate support to users straight after registration, with no waiting lists.
Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP) is working with homeless hostels across Norfolk to train staff to administer Naloxone, which is used when people have taken heroin and other opiate overdoses. It is hoped that by providing hostels with a take-home kit, as well as the right training on how to use it, the number of people who die prematurely as a result of an overdose will reduce.
NRP, which is a partnership between Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), The Matthew Project and the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt), has so far trained staff at many hostels, including Bishopbridge House and the Ripley Project, both in Norwich. A further session will take place with staff from Genesis Housing next month.
The NHS Benchmarking Network were commissioned by NHS England to undertake a bespoke data collection on perinatal mental health services, which took place from June to August 2016. The data collection process involved all 58 English Mental Health Trusts and the aim of the project was to inform the Perinatal Expert Reference Group of the current provision of perinatal mental health services in England, covering both inpatient Mother and Baby Units and Community Mother and Baby Teams. The data collection covered 2015/16 outturn data, or in some cases, data as at a census date of 31.3.16.
This paper presents NHS bed data from across the UK in one place. The data demonstrates the increasing pressures on the system in each nation. It provides evidence of the underlying cracks within the NHS.
With the creation of the first fully integrated post at director level, the new role builds on the existing partnership between the county council and local mental health trust which sees social workers from the council operate as part of integrated mental health teams.
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) developed the TEWV Innovation Fund, in partnership with Your Consortium, to support local projects to deliver programmes and activities which can help people to overcome barriers to achieving good mental health and emotional well-being. The Innovation Fund is managed on behalf of TEWV by Your Consortium, who provide expertise in contract and grant management and support for the VCS in Yorkshire.
Young people in Peterborough and Huntington who need to talk to someone confidentially about problems at home, school or in their relationships can now visit new drop-in sessions called HERE:NOW.
No appointment is needed and young people can access a variety of workshops and activities that help promote their mental health from advice and information, one-to-one counselling, Mindfulness sessions, group work and therapy.
The acute psychiatric in-patient service in Christchurch, New Zealand, recently changed from two locked and two unlocked wards to four open wards. This provided the opportunity to evaluate whether shifting to an unlocked environment was associated with higher rates of adverse events, including unauthorised absences, violent incidents and seclusion. We compared long-term adverse event data before and after ward configuration change. Open access.
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.