Poor mental health step-down planning
Absence of detailed risk assessment and management plans during mental health care step-downs or medication weaning.
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9 - Factors for the Board's reorganisation programme
The Board’s programme of reorganising mental illness services should emphasise factors which seem to us not to have been adequately recognised and are essential to the implementation of their policy: (i) the need to provide day places as well as beds in new district general hospital departments, (ii) the need for effective liaison with those responsible for supporting...
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1 - Guidance on long-stay elderly patients in the transition
The Department are, we understand, about to issue guidance on the problems of transition from mental illness services based on specialist psychiatric hospitals such as Whittingham to those based on units in general hospitals. Further thought and advice are urgently needed on provision that will have to be made for elderly long-stay patients who cannot be permanently accommodated...
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