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THE first-ever national guidance for NHS mental health trusts to ensure ways of improving services are learned from patients’ deaths is unveiled today.
The guidance, drawn up by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), focuses on patients with severe mental illness and on four ‘red-flag’ scenarios, including where concerns have been raised by families and carers or where patients have experienced psychosis or had an eating disorder.
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CQC inspectors visited The Priory in January 2018 to check on the safety of patients receiving treatment for drug and alcohol use on West Wing. Previously the service was in breach of regulations around substance misuse and detoxification.
What does it take to raise standards in a mental health trust? How can a trust that requires improvement become good or outstanding?
To help answer those questions we visited seven NHS mental health trusts that had achieved significant improvements in their ratings.
CQC last inspected these services in 2016 and rated them as Requires Improvement. Following that inspection, inspectors told the provider of the actions they must take in order to improve the service.
CQC re-inspected in July 2017 to check whether the required improvements had been made. The trust had only completed three of the eight actions we had told them they must take. We changed our rating of the service to Inadequate overall.
Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) at West London Mental Health NHS Trust have made good progress in some key areas. The trust had undertaken considerable work to better manage patient flow. This had resolved the issue of patients receiving care on one ward while sleeping on another ward.
Today we have published a new report detailing the findings from our comprehensive inspections of specialist mental health services over the last three years.
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The ‘Improving services for people with mental health needs who present to A&E’ CQUIN and the ‘Transitions out of Children and Young People’s (CYP) Mental Health Services’ CQUIN (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation) aim to incentivise providers to work with partners to improve patient care by delivering services more efficiently and effectively.
People with mental ill health are three times more likely to present to A&E than the general population so the former CQUIN will allow mental health and acute trusts over the next two years to access funding aimed in year one at improving support for the top 0.25% or 150 to 200 people per A&E, who use it most frequently through improved recognition and coding of mental health needs and proactive care planning.
Year two focus will be on reducing overall number of attendances at A&E by people with mental health needs as improved community-based mental health services come online.