A Pre-admission Suite (PAS) at a south London mental and community health trust has now closed, following a Care Quality Commission focused inspection in August 2019.
CQC undertook the inspection following concerns received about the length of
time patients stayed in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust’s PAS and complaints from patients and relatives.
The Care Quality Commission has rated the care being provided by MOSAIC to be Outstanding after an inspection in January 2019.
MOSAIC is a substance misuse service operated by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and provides support and treatment for people with drug and alcohol issues, as well as support for young people whose parents misuse substances.
There has been an increasing interest in the concept of value-based health care and how resources are allocated to improve outcomes. However, measuring outcomes in mental health services is often complex and fraught with difficulty, with professionals and service users often having very different perspectives on the nature of mental illness and the role of services in addressing it.
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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.
This study identified service characteristics associated with quality of care in specialist mental health supported accommodation services that can be used in the design and specification of services.
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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.
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Open access. South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust developed a system of weekend new patient reviews by higher trainees to provide senior medical input 7 days a week. To evaluate the effectiveness of these reviews, the notes for all patients admitted over 3 months were examined. The mean length of stay for patients before and after the introduction of the weekend new patient reviews were compared via unpaired t-test.
The National Health Service (NHS) is known to be a challenging place to work, with financial and performance targets placing increasing pressure on the organisation. This study aimed to investigate whether these pressures and threats might be detrimental to the quality of care and the compassion that the NHS strives to deliver. Quantitative data were collected via self-report questionnaires from healthcare professionals across 3 NHS trusts in England in order to measure Self-compassion; Compassion for Others; Perceived Organisational Threat; and Perceived Organisational Compassion. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) allows South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to refocus on alcohol screening and interventions.