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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

   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

   A positive outlook:
   Positive discharge toolkit

   Star Wards website:
   Star Wards

   NIMHE Mental Health Digest:
   NIMHE MH digest 2

   



What's new on Virtual Ward? 

  Providing a systematic evaluation
  of key existing medicines  
  management schemes and their
  applicability to acute mental
  health settings:
  Getting the medicines right

  This self-assessment toolkit and
  guidance takes a whole systems
  approach to help Mental Health
  Trusts to review their management
  of medicines and help drive action
  plans for effective local delivery:   Medicines Management Self
  Assessment Toolkit 2008

  Medicines Management Self
  Assessment Toolkit Guidance 2008

  Research on absconding by
  patients 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
 
  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

 





 

 

 

 







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