Acute Inpatient Documents and Links
Resources are listed by title in alphabetical order:
2008 Service of users of mental health services results (Carried out by the Healthcare Commission)
The Healthcare Commission have published the results of the annual survey of service users in NHS trusts providing community mental health services in England. Access the full results and reports on each individual trust by clicking on the following link:
http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/guidanceforhealthcarestaff/nhsstaff/nhsstaffandpatientsurveys/patientsurveys/mentalhealthservices.cfm
A Positive Outlook: A Good Practice Toolkit to improve discharge from inpatient mental health care (NIMHE/CSIP, April 2007)
This toolkit links acute mental health policy to positive inpatient discharge practice for adults and older people. It should be used to inform the development of improved discharge planning and locally agreed ptotocolsand can assist in achieving reduced lengths of stay on acute inpatient wards.
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Acute Inpatient Mental Health Care: Education, Training & Continuing Professional Development for All (NIMHE & SCMH, 2004)
This is supplementary training guidance to the MHPIG for Adult acute
inpatient care published in 2002. It aims to make current training and development
opportunities more relevant and available to in-patient practitioners and is targeted at all
professional groups, NHS Trusts, and training and education providers.
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Best Practice in Managing Risk (Department of Health, 2007)
This framework is a guide for mental health professionals working with service users to assess risk. It underpins risk assessment with principles of good practice for all mental health settings and provides a list of tools offering structure to risk management.
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Dual diagnosis in mental health in-patient and day hospital settings (DH, Oct 2006)
This guidance covers the assessment and clinical management of patients with
mental illness being cared for in psychiatric inpatient or day care settings who also use
or misuse alcohol and/or illicit or other drugs. It also cover organisational and management issues to help mental health services manage these patients effectively.
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Laying the foundations for better acute mental health care (CSIP , May 2008)
Laying the Foundations is a workbook designed to assist those involved in the
review, planning and re-design of their adult acute mental health services and
to inform any related capital developments being proposed.
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Medicines Management: Everybody's Business (DH, Jan 2008)
This leaflet, which is aimed at mental health service users, carers and health and social care practitioner (H&SCP) staff, has been developed with the help of service users and carers and describes good practice. It has two purposes:
• firstly, to empower service users and carers to ask relevant questions and have their views taken into account. This builds on the work carried out collaboratively on the New Ways of Working for Pharmacy programme
• secondly, to help H&SCPs improve their person-centred approach in the area of medicines management. Medicines management can be described as the process of managing the way in which medicines are chosen, bought, delivered, prescribed, administered and reviewed, including appropriate safe, agreed withdrawal, in order to make the most of the contribution medicines can make to improving care and treatment.
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More than just staffing numbers (CSIP, September 2008)
More than just staffing numbers is a positive practice workbook designed to assist local mental health services address key workforce issues in the review, planning and re-design of their adult acute mental health service. It has been issued as a companion document to Laying Foundations for better acute mental health.
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Mental Health Services and Patient Safety (The National Patient Safety Agency, July 2006)
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Observing & engaging: new ways to reduce self harm and suicide article (Mental Health Practice, July 2007)
Parents in Hospital - How mental health services can best promote family contact when a parent is in hospital (July 2007)
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Privacy and Dignity - a report by the Chief Nursing Officer into mixed sex accommodation in hospitals (Department of Health, May 2007)
This report sets out the current position on privacy and dignity in acute care, as it relates to mixed sex accommodation. It reports what people want, and points to good practice.
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Review of Open Doors in Acute Inpatient Wards(April 2007)
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Star Wards Survey of Pilot Sites Report (May 2007)
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The Capable Acute Care Forum (ACF)
This is a briefing sheet of the characteristics of a capable ACF.
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The Pathway to Recovery: A review of Acute Mental Health Services by The Health Care Commission
Virtual Ward Website
The Virtual Ward (VW) website provides an easy, accessible, single, national, method of displaying and distributing examples of positive practice, policies, presentations and training, throughout the acute care pathway.
Visit www.virtualward.org.uk
Onwards and Upwards Toolkit
The handbook builds on widespread evidence of an existing momentum
for improvement and signposts good practice and helpful approaches from
many acute mental health services. It has been produced
to encourage and inform organisations taking part in the service review to
assess and sustain improvement in the quality of the services they provide.
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