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Care planning and coordination are currently insufficiently based on scientific insights due to a lack of knowledge on this topic. In the UK and the Netherlands, most patients with severe mental illness receive long‐term specialized mental healthcare, even when they are stable. This study aims to explore the outcome of these stable patients when they are referred to primary healthcare.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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Caring for people with dementia and responsive behaviours can challenge nurses and little is known of their experiences. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To explicate the outcomes of home support interventions for older people with dementia and/or their carers to inform clinical practice, policy and research. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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Sleep is a natural state of inactivity resulting from the closing down of bodily systems, aided by the production of hormones. There are considerable variables in sleep patterns and individual requirements. Insomnia covers a variety of sleep problems, each needing a different approach. This article describes the process of sleep and the causes of insomnia; and outlines treatments to help improve the quality of sleep particularly in older people. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
General practice is typically the first point of access to healthcare. However, emerging models of providing mental health services in primary care are poorly understood. 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.
Reports of increased healthcare bureaucracy and concerns over care plan quality have emerged from research and surveys into staff and service user experiences. Little is known of mental health staff perspectives on the value of written care plans in supporting dementia care. 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 concept of compassion has received limited attention in community mental health nursing. Aim: Based on data taken from semi-structured interviews with community mental health nurses this paper aims to describe interpretations and perspectives of compassion to gain insight and development of its meaning. 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.
To investigate the acceptability of a co-delivered, two-day training intervention on service user and carer involved care planning. 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.
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.
The PCC has funded the appointment of an additional mental health nurse in Norfolk Constabulary’s control room to supplement the current five nurses.
As well as providing professional help and support to callers at pivotal times, this new post will allow a nurse, on occasion, to be deployed directly to the scene of incidents, helping to further reduce demand on the police service.
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.