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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.
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.
The police liaison scheme is run in Kirklees and Calderdale and involves mental health nurses working alongside officers at Halifax and Huddersfield police stations to recognise the signs of mental illness. This ensures fewer people with mental health conditions are placed on Section 136 of the Mental Health Act, held in a cell or admitted to A&E when there are more appropriate ways of providing health care for them. The scheme also enables practitioners to visit victims and witnesses at home and support police officers at the scene of an incident.
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Best Example of Collaborative Working – NWC Research and Innovation Awards 2015 Cheshire Constabulary and mental health services are working together to provide an immediate response to police incidents that would benefit from mental health services, through Street Triage. It is supported by Cheshire and Wirral Foundation Trust and 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
A police officer and a community psychiatric nurse work together, sharing information and expertise.
Both parties assess situations with the nurse using mental health expertise, access to diagnosis and risk history, and the officer looking at the law/crime, offending history and current situation. Together they decide the most appropriate course of action, taking into consideration customer care, illness, safeguarding and the law.
[Canadian article] What are the implications for practice?
Multidisciplinary outreach teams, specifically those with psychiatric and nursing support, successfully work with and house people experiencing street homeless-ness and psychosis.
Mental health nurses embedded in the community are an essential link between inpatient and outpatient care for highly vulnerable street homeless individuals. Login using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Conclusions
The administrative elements of care co-ordination reduce opportunities for recovery-focused and personalised work. There were few shared understandings of recovery, which may limit shared goals. Conversations on risk appeared to be neglected and assessments kept from service users. A reluctance to engage in dialogue about risk management may work against opportunities for positive risk-taking as part of recovery-focused work.