Cracking day in Lancashire yesterday
19/06/19
A packed house yesterday for our High Intensity Crisis Care workshop, where we discussed the core pressures experienced by urgent care economies UK wide and solutions that can ease the stress and tensions felt by all teams. What was most impressive was the aspiration to deliver new solutions across the entire Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System. There were so many passionate health, police and 3rd sector leaders in the room yesterday. The future is definitely bright, despite the current local challenges.
We will now be working towards delivering 4-5 high intensity intervention communities within the next few months.
Second Wiltshire Team launched today
21/05/19
Congratulations to Avon and Wiltshire NHS and Wiltshire Police who launched their second PHIM team today in the north/west area of Wiltshire.
Work is in progress to launch their third team in Swindon later this year.
All of the first seven NHS Trusts that started a SIM team, have now increased the size of their teams, since launching.
Lots of great conversations this week
18/05/19
We had a fabulous week, travelling around the country meeting 7 different policing and Mental Health Trusts to discuss high intensity crisis care and potential new teams in Telford, Wakefield, Margate and Oxford.
Next week, we are spending time with our Wiltshire teams as they launch another team in the west of the county.
Then on Wednesday, we will be helping the team in Hertfordshire with their final preparations before launch.
On Thursday, we travel down to Exeter to run our first project planning workshop for their first two teams, coming soon in Plymouth and Barnstaple.
And finally on Friday we are meeting with the Met Police to plan for the long term sustainability of their SIM London network.
Health Education England 'Blue Light' Round Table
08/05/19
We are delighted to have been invited to speak at the Houses of Parliament at the Blue Light Round Table Event on July 8th.
Meeting with NHS Digital
09/04/19
Today we are meeting with NHS Digital in Leeds to discuss the National Record Locator. The NRL is a new IT network that will span the entire NHS network to ensure that NHS staff in one part of the UK can access the care records of a patient who may have just arrived from another part of the country. The High Intensity Network will be able to use the NRL to ensure that all of our high intensity teams can search for and view the crisis care record of a mental health patient who may have left their own NHS area whilst in crisis. This will help teams connect and speak to each other before key decisions are made, such as the decision to detain under the Mental Health Act or the decision regarding how to get the patient to a safe place. The NRL is already working with a small number of mental health trusts and ambulance services but the ambition is to ensure that every mental health trust and ambulance service are online and connected in the months to come.
The work we will be completing for NHS Digital will ensure that all NHS mental health practitioners working within police and criminal justice teams also have equal access to the NRL. These NHS roles include:
1. Mental Health practitioners in Police Control rooms.
2. Mental Health practitioners working within Street Triage response teams.
3. Mental Health practitioners working within police custody and court buildings. These teams are commonly called Liaison and Diversion teams.
4. Mental Health practitioners working within high intensity teams such as SIM.
The first 5 NHS mental health trusts to connect are:
Lancashire Care NHS
Cheshire & Wirrall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Humber NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Delivering the NHS Constitution
08/04/19
In response to a service user request we have today published a simple guide about how the High Intensity Network meets to the core principles and values of the National Health Service. These are outlined within a national document called the NHS Constitution. To find our guide, go to the 'Resources' section of the website.
Trust 15 launched today
05/04/19
We are delighted to announce that Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Cumbria Police, (supported by the MIND/Lighthouse Crisis Service, NW Ambulance Service and Manchester Social Care NHS (Drug and Alcohol Services), launched the first Cumbria team this afternoon. Thank you to everyone for their efforts this week.
Announcing the launch of 2 new teams in the South-West
03/04/19
We are delighted to announce that Devon and Cornwall Police, together with Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Livewell Southwest (Mental Health provider for Plymouth) have agreed to join forces to provide better care for their most intensive crisis patients. Two teams will be launching this year in Plymouth and Barnstable. They will be supported by South West Academic Health Science Network.
Meeting with HMICFRS
02/04/19
Today we are meeting with HMRCFRS, to outline how we think we can contribute to the work recommended within their November 2018 review of policing and mental health.
Specifically, we will be offering to support the delivery of:
Recommendation 2 - Developing more accurate ways of collating mental health demand, most notably through digital data systems.
Recommendation 4 - Review and development of police mental health training.
Recommendation 5 - The Dept of Health and Social Care have been asked to explore whether there is' sustainable and integrated support to prevent repeat contact' by September 2019.
UPDATE: Second meeting being arranged to discuss supporting 'repeat contacting' patients.
Online Training: Course 2 launches today.
01/04/19
We are delighted to announce that our second online course launches today, providing more digital training resources for all our teams around the UK. Each of our mentors have their own training dashboard and can study 31 different modules. Each module starts with a 15 minute video and then moves on to some reflective questions that reinforce the key learning points. Mentors can study the modules as a formal, certificated CPD course or simply dip in and out of any module, to remind themselves about a specific subject. Modules include topics such as: service user assessments, core psychological theory, risk management, reflective practice, decision making, working as a team, problem solving, community diversion, self harm and crisis care planning.