Welcome to the Virtual Ward website
The Virtual Ward is a place to share good practice between staff and people who use mental health services. The site is designed for all to access information about positive and innovative practice, to read supporting policy and to utilise the examples of training underpinning those examples. You will be able to adjust these to fit your local circumstances. Why not share your ideas and practices with us for others to adopt.
Virtual Ward site news
The Virtual Ward is currently being revised and reconstructed and will be relaunched in the coming months.
Please note that many government websites are also under reconstruction and consequently some links within Virtual Ward will take you to their homepages rather than the specified document until the sites are revised and relaunched.
The National Acute Care programme and Virtual Ward are now part of NMHDU: www.nmhdu.org.uk
Virtual Ward key resource files
Healthcare Commission pathway to
recovery: A review of NHS acute
inpatient mental health services:
The pathway to recovery
Helping people through mental
health crisis: the role of CRHT
services:
National Audit Office
recovery: A review of NHS acute
inpatient mental health services:
The pathway to recovery
Helping people through mental
health crisis: the role of CRHT
services:
National Audit Office
Laying the foundations for better
acute mental healthcare:
Laying The Foundations
plus LTF template:
LTF template
Review and development of acute
mental health workforce:
More than Just Staffing Numbers
Onwards and upwards:
Onwards and upwards handbook
acute mental healthcare:
Laying The Foundations
plus LTF template:
LTF template
Review and development of acute
mental health workforce:
More than Just Staffing Numbers
Onwards and upwards:
Onwards and upwards handbook
A positive outlook:
Positive discharge toolkit
Star Wards website:
Star Wards
NIMHE Mental Health Digest:
Positive discharge toolkit
Star Wards website:
Star Wards
NIMHE Mental Health Digest:
What's new on Virtual Ward?
Research on absconding bypatients on acute psychiatric wards:
Anti absconding booklet
A practical workbook designed to
reduce the number of patients who
go missing from acute wards:
Strategies reduce missing patients
plus self-assessment tool:
Self-assessment tool
Information about the care provided
on Ashby Ward:
Your Introduction to Ashby Ward
South West Acute Inpatient &
CRHT Network Update April 2009:
CSIP SW Acute Inpatient newsletter
The role of psychologists working in
CRHT Teams:
BPS briefing re CRHT