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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.
In the last of our series of blogs about the Mental Health Implementation Plan launched earlier this week, nurse consultant Kate Chartres discusses how the model of liaison at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust supports patients through specialist clinics for people with co-morbid physical and mental health conditions
A Trust project designed to make it easier for people using our inpatient services to independently charge and monitor their mobile devices has been highly commended at this year’s HSJ Awards.
Earlier this year, bespoke mobile charging stations, called ChargeBoxes, were installed on four inpatient wards at Farnham Road Hospital to reduce the significant amount of nursing time which was being taken up by facilitating charging. It also gave people staying on the wards more autonomy when charging devices and allowed them to stay better connected with what was happening outside of the ward.
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Safe staffing and coercive practices are of pressing concern for mental health services. These are inter‐dependent and the relationship is under‐researched.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
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.
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.
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The Francis Inquiry (2013) focused the attention of the general public onto poor quality nursing care. As a direct result of this inquiry, NICE was asked to review the evidence base for safe nurse staffing levels in nine care settings in England. Two of these reviews focused on mental health, with reviews proposed for acute inpatient and community care. This work was halted in June 2015 by NHS England, and it was thought that the majority of this work would not be completed and published.
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.
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The staff from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, the community and mental health provider, have been advising teachers how to identify and help youngsters who are experiencing emotional difficulties.
Costing £150,000, which has been funded by Peterborough City Council, the Project For Schools Team is made up of three community psychiatric nurses who are available to all 70 primary schools in Peterborough.
Inpatient suicide and absconding of inpatients at risk of self-endangering behaviour are important challenges for all medical disciplines, particularly psychiatry. Patients at risk are often admitted to locked wards in psychiatric hospitals to prevent absconding, suicide attempts, and death by suicide. However, there is insufficient evidence that treatment on locked wards can effectively prevent these outcomes. We did this study to compare hospitals without locked wards and hospitals with locked wards and to establish whether hospital type has an effect on these outcomes. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
or three years Sussex Police and Sussex Partnership have operating street triage teams, which started in Eastbourne, and has expanded across East and West Sussex. This scheme sees a specially allocated police officer and a specialist mental health nurse responding to incidents where a mental health intervention is needed. It has been an enormous success meaning less people have been detained under s136 and those that have are far more likely to be taken to a hospital place of safety.
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.