COMMENTARY ON: Walter F, Carr MJ, Mok PLH, et al. Premature mortality among patients recently discharged from their first inpatient psychiatric treatment. JAMA Psychiatry 2017;74:485–92.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The stages of change model suggests that individuals seeking treatment are in the ‘preparation’ or the ‘action’ stage of change, which is the desired outcome of successful Motivational Interviewing (MI) interventions. MI is known to enhance treatment attendance among individuals with mental health problems. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
People with learning disabilities and a mental health condition are now getting more support to look after their physical health thanks to a team of specialist mental health nurses working in GP practices across Suffolk.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Research and evidence from service users has consistently reported that service users are not involved in care planning, despite mental health policy that advocates a collaborative process and evidence that involvement facilitates recovery (Bee et al, 2015; Simpson et al, 2016). Service users want the care plan to go beyond being a record of clinical decisions and include aspects of their lives in which they need support, such as housing, employment and benefits.
Grundy et al (2016) looked at what ‘user-involved’ care planning might look like. They found that meaningful relationships were key to the successful involvement of service users in 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.
Care planning and co-ordination are central to the delivery of comprehensive mental health care especially where individuals have complex health and social care needs. Although the terms are often used together they clearly imply different sets of processes, practices and ultimately experiences for individuals using and working in services. Care planning involves professionals (nurses, doctors, social workers and others) and the person needing care collaborating on goals, making shared written records and agreeing when to review progress. 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 new CPA process uses Dialog + to ensure that the views and goals of service users are absolutely central to the assessment and care planning process. The new My Recovery Care Plan is intended to provide service users with an individualised and understandable care plan which reflects their concerns and priorities.
Staff on Heather ward, based at Airedale Centre for Mental Health, which supports people with complex mental health problems ‘huddle’ twice a day so they can identify any ways they can better support people on the ward in the day ahead and keep people safe.
A new initiative has been launched on Meadow Ward at Penn Hospital to encourage staff to take frequent breaks to help improve their health and wellbeing.
The ‘taking a break' initiative aims to help make staff aware that taking enough breaks can also help them to provide the highest standard of patient care, by putting them in a position to make the best decisions for patients and helping to strengthen morale and create relationships.
This article presents to implementation service evaluation/quality improvement initiative in one NHS trust which involved the implementation of the Modified Early Warning Scoring System (MEWS) that enables staff to assess, recognise and respond to the physical health needs of people with mental health problems or a learning disability in an inpatient setting.
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A caseload management tool was developed with the aim of creating a straightforward, unbiased way of assessing a clinician's caseload for the community mental health teams (CMHTs) in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. For the first time, the tool developed allows for individual clinicians to record caseloads electronically, enabling decision makers and their teams to assess caseloads.To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
This essay addresses common arguments against implementing smoke-free policies in mental health facilities drawing on the international research evidence. Key arguments supporting implementation of smoke-free policies in mental health facilities are also outlined. This commentary provides policy makers, researchers, and clinicians with information to dispel myths about smoke-free policies in mental health facilities and provides arguments advocating for implementation of these policies. 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.
In this blog Kiri Quinn a senior mental health practitioner and Charlotte Jackson an occupational therapist talk about their experiences of working in the new care models programme and the changes that have been made through working in a newly formed multi-disciplinary team.