Service innovations: redesigning a community mental health team

Shajahn, Polash; Forde, Frances; McIntosh, Mary; Moffat, Vicki; Munogee, Pravin

doi:10.1192/pb.30.7.269

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“…Patients who require more specialist mental health services than the GP can provide are referred to a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). However it has been identified that CMHTs are not adequately able to respond to current demands and are faced with more referrals than they are able to manage, resulting in waiting lists to access the service and large numbers of patients within their caseloads (Shajahn, Forde, McIntosh, Moffat, & Munogee, 2006). A significant downfall of CMHTs is that they cannot provide adequate crisis intervention services where support is available to patients outside of office working hours (Mental Health Council of Australia, 2005).…”

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Application of a Model for the Development of a Mental Health Service Delivery Collaboration Between Police and the Health Service

Laing

Halsey²,

Donohue³

et al. 2009

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Changing societal trends have revealed an increased prevalence of mental illness and diminished health resources from which to offer services. This has lead to a need to develop new and more efficient police and health service models of practice. Services offered by the police department in the management of mental health crisis in the community are essential in minimising the risk of individuals with mental health problems causing harm to themselves or a member of the public. In addressing the difficulties associated with police playing an important role in the management of mental health crisis in the community, but having little training in mental health issues, this paper discusses a proposed innovation for New South Wales police in Australia through the development of a Crisis Intervention Team model.

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Section: Who Provides Mental Health Care In the Community?mentioning

confidence: 96%

Application of a Model for the Development of a Mental Health Service Delivery Collaboration Between Police and the Health Service

Laing

Halsey²,

Donohue³

et al. 2009

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…Several papers referred to the weekly MDT meeting as the "referral meeting" or the "allocation meeting" (Simpson and de Silva, 2003;Mitchell and Patience, 2002;King, 2001;Mohan et al, 2004). Seven papers mentioned teams having discussions about which practitioner would be most suitable to work with a given patient (Lankshear, 2003;McCrae et al, 2008;Simpson, 2007, Burns, 2006Ingram and Tacchi, 2004;Shajahan et al, 2006;Social Services Inspectorate, 2001). In theory, this decision was to be made by finding the most suitable match between a specific case and the expertise of a particular professional.…”

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Multidisciplinary team meetings in community mental health: a systematic review of their functions

Bháird

Xanthopoulou

Black

et al. 2016

Mental Health Review Journal

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.The authors affiliations can be found at the end of this article. AbstractPurpose -Previous research has identified a need for greater clarity regarding the functions of multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings in UK community mental health services. The purpose of this paper is to identify the functions of these meetings by systematically reviewing both primary research and academic discussion papers. Design/methodology/approach -Papers relating to adult community mental health teams (CMHTs) in the UK and published between September 1999 and February 2014 were reviewed and appraised using NICE quality checklists. The search was broad in scope to include both general CMHTs and specialist CMHTs such as early intervention psychosis services and forensic mental health teams. A thematic synthesis of the findings was performed to develop an overarching thematic framework of the reported functions of MDT meetings. Findings -None of the 4,046 studies identified directly investigated the functions of MDT meetings. However, 49 mentioned functions in passing. These functions were categorised into four thematic domains: discussing the care of individual patients, teamwork, team management and learning and development. Several papers reported a lack of clarity about the purpose of MDT meetings and the roles of different team members which hindered effective collaboration. Practical implications -Without clearly agreed objectives for MDT meetings, monitoring their effectiveness is problematic. Unwarranted variation in their functioning may undermine the quality of care. Originality/value -This is the first systematic review to investigate the functions of CMHT MDT meetings in the UK. The findings highlight a need for empirical research to establish how MDT meetings are being used so that their effectiveness can be understood, monitored and evaluated.

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Service innovations: redesigning a community mental health team

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Application of a Model for the Development of a Mental Health Service Delivery Collaboration Between Police and the Health Service

Application of a Model for the Development of a Mental Health Service Delivery Collaboration Between Police and the Health Service

Multidisciplinary team meetings in community mental health: a systematic review of their functions

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