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Home » Partnerships » Formal partnerships » Dual diagnosis

	Title: Out of Your Head - David Published: February 2008 Summary: This story is about "David" and the role that cannabis plays in his life and his illness.
	Title: Out of Your Head - Martha Published: February 2008 Summary: This story is about "Martha" and the role that ecstasy plays in her life and her illness.
	Title: Out of Year Head - Jason Published: February 2008 Summary: This story is about "Jason" and the role that alcohol and a range of other drugs plays in his life and his illness.
	Title: Out of Your Head - God Published: February 2008 Summary: This story is about a man they call ‘God’ and the role that heroin and crack plays in his life and his illness.
	Title: Out of Your Head briefing notes Published: February 2008 Summary: Guides for people who use drugs and have experienced mental illness. (CNO Award Finalist; North West NHS Innovations Winner; National Technology Awards Runner-up). By Michael Linnell & Mark Holland. A series of 4 booklets tell the stories of David, Martha, ‘God’ and Jason. They are based upon the experiences of people who use substances and are in mental health treatment.
	Title: Good Practice in Dual Diagnosis Published: Summary:  Article on dual diagnosis work in Camden and Islington. The work has aimed to develop clinician confidence and competence in working with the complex difficulties presented by people who access out services with co morbid mental health and substance misuse problems.
	Title: Nottinghamshire Dual Diagnosis Service Acute in-patient liaison clinics Published: Summary: Documenting visits to acute wards and psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) throughout the county on a weekly basis (twice weekly in relation to the Acute admission ward).

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Home » Care planning » Engagement » Activities

	Title: DAMIG Newsletter 2 Published: June 2008 Summary: Development of Activities for Male Inpatient Groups. Ideas Exchange Newsletter #2. This project grew from plans to create a resource file for male inpatient clients and the staff that work with them. The file was to contain aims and objectives, group protocols, ideas for activities, evidence and signposting to relevant community links.
	Title: DAMIG 1 resource pack CHESS notes Published: June 2008 Summary: Development of Activities for Male Inpatient Groups. Document on the benefits of playing chess from concentration to problem solving. The article also includes how to get started as a player and  information on chess organisations and clubs.
	Title: DAMIG 1 resource pack CLIMBING -WALL AND TOWER-notes Published: June 2008 Summary: Development of Activities for Male Inpatient Groups. Document on the benefits of rock climbing. The article includes how to get started and information on rock climbing organisations and clubs, costs of the sport, community access, physical benefits.
	Title: DAMIG 1 resource pack notes template Published: June 2008 Summary: Development of Activities for Male Inpatient Groups. Blank template to record group activity including sections for Anecdotal Evidence/ Evidence Based Practice, Start-up material resources and expenditure, Ongoing costs, Community Access.
	Title: DAMIG 1 resource pack SCALEXTRIC notes Published: June 2008 Summary: Development of Activities for Male Inpatient Groups. Document on the benefits of playing scalextric. The article includes how to get started and information on pricing, benefits for group activity and inter ward competitions.

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Title: Carers and confidentiality Published: August 2004 Summary: Issues involved in information-sharing. This leaflet is about confidentiality issues which arise between mental health professionals and carers of adults with mental health problems, in particular those who provide on-going help and support, without payment, to a relative, partner or friend.

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Home » Recovery » User involvement

	Title: Being heard scroll Published: 2007 Summary: This charter of service user rights was developed by the Brighton & Hove Service User group under the umbrella of the Mind Live Project and in consultation with a range of other local user groups. Subjects include Service user participation, Individual Care, Education, rights and responsibilities, Challenging stigma and promoting diversity.
	Title: Inpatient Proposal Summary: Proposal for Patient Opinion Work on Inpatient Wards. The Patient Opinion work with the 5 Boroughs is looking to test out and resolve issues around extending the Patient Opinion platform to mental health in order to roll out a national programme.

 

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Home » Care planning » Communication

Title: Ward rounds (2) Summary: Document discussing the  Replacement of wards rounds with Consultant appointments. As a result of some small but important changes we can clearly evidence that the ward is more flexible and person centred whilst at the same time providing both demonstrable and sustainable value for money.

Title: Clinical Supervision Handbook Version 4 2- Rampton Summary: Using an integrated model to develop clinical practice. The approach adopted in the Peaks Unit recognises the complex needs of this patient group and also recognises that a consistent, integrated, multidisciplinary approach to the delivery of treatment interventions is essential. Includes information on Assessment, Training, Supervision models, Contracts, Audits and Procedures.

 

 

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Home » Recovery » Improving recovery 

	Title: Facilitating recovery and promoting social inclusion Published: May 2007 Summary: A Strategy for Practice and Implementation Plan. In depth document discussing the promotion of recovery and facilitation of inclusion which form the principles guiding the range of treatment and support provided to all service users.
	Title: Overview of recovery and social inclusion strategy and action plan Published: May 2007 Summary:Document explaining the Purpose of the strategy, What we mean by recovery, strategy for facilitating recovery and promoting inclusion, Implementing the strategy. Written by Rachel Perkins, Director of Quality Assurance and User/Carer Experience.
	Title: Spirituality Booklet 3 Published: 2008 Summary: Staffordshire University were commissioned to produce a ward based practical booklet for staff which gives basic steps and tips together with case studies. This guidance, with the imaginative use of exercises and case studies has been designed to encourage discussion, aid training and development, and specifically improve the experience of those who use acute services.
	Title: Spirituality Leaflet 3 Published: 2008 Summary: Facilitating Spirituality. All of us, at some stage in our lives, will experience acute mental distress. This leaflet aims to help you to start working with service users who want to explore their spirituality at this challenging time.
	Title: Spirituality Poster 3 Published: 2008 Summary: Spirituality poster summarising the key elements in facilitating spirituality.
	Title: Spirituality - evidence resource Published: July 2008 Summary: Spirituality, Religion and Mental Health: A Brief Evidence Resource. This document provides a brief evidence resource for staff engaged in meeting the spiritual and religious needs of people using mental health services. It has been developed from a literature review conducted for the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) as part of a wider resource project led by Prof. Peter Gilbert supported by Lesley Hayes and Rob Merchant at Staffordshire University.

 

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Home » Admission » Assessment tools

Title: TAG assessment Summary: Threshold Assessment Grid (TAG). A scoresheet to assess the severity of a person's mental health problems including a checklist for guidance.

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Home » Admission » Pre-admission » Crisis resolution home treatment

Title: MH A&E Triage Scale Summary: Mental Health Triage Scale for use with the Mental Health Assessment Matrix. Developed by Simon Baston, the NICE self-harm guideline development. Word document. Title: MH Ass Doc Derby Hospitals Summary: Mental Health Triage Scale for use with the NICE guideline on self-harm. Developed by Simon Baston and the NICE self-harm guideline development group. PDF version of the above file..

Title: Risk Assessment Matrix SW London Published: February 2004 Summary: SW London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust Accident & Emergency Department - Mental Health Assessment Form.

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Home » Admission » Recording systems » Acute workforce review

Title: NTW supervision project report Published: December 2007 Summary: Report on the collaborative action research project: Recognising and developing clinical supervision - Derek Milne and Nasim Choudhri.

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Home » Admission » Recording systems » Information

Title: NIMHE MH digest 2 Published: February 2008 Summary: This document provides a succinct overview of some key facts and figures from research into mental health and related services. It is for everyone who needs to quickly understand key facts and figures in mental health and its care. It is for everyone who has to explain mental health and its care to others.

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Home » Admission » Staff rotas » Roles and changing workforce

Title: Urgent care draft Job description adult psychiatrist STW05 Summary: Job description for Consultant Adult Psychiatrist - Urgent Care, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust.

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Home » Aftercare » Discharge

Title: Protocol for discharge Published: August 2005 Summary: Protocol for Discharge and Seven Day Follow Up from Inpatient Services. This protocol sets out the way in which discharge arrangements should be implemented to ensure that mechanisms are in place for a safe and effective discharge from Inpatient Services.

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Home » Care planning » Engagement » Observation

Title: Study on Observations Summary: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between special observation and self-harm within the context of other conflict behaviours, other containment methods, patient factors, service environment, physical environment and staff factors.

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Home » Care planning » Engagement » Treatments

	Title: Good Practice Manual-Meds Published: 2008 Summary: Good practice in the routine, ward-based administration of medication on acute mental health units - Support Manual written by Joy A Duxbury, John Baker and Neil Harris. This manual describes the good practice principles for the administration of medications in acute mental health wards. It is hoped that this guide will act as a further prompt for all clinicians to improve on what they already do well, maintain areas of good practice and for some staff provide additional knowledge and skills for how they administer and monitor medication.
	Title: DH Medicine management Published: January 2008 Summary: This leaflet aims to empower service users and carers to ask relevant questions about medication and have their views taken into account, and to help health and social care practitioners improve their person-centred approach in the area of medicines management.
	Title: CSIP medicines management Exec Summary Summary: Evaluation of Medicines Management Schemes in Acute Adult and Acute Older Age Mental Health Wards: Final Report - Dr Eleanor Bradley, Cathy Riley and Diane Thompson. This study has been designed to outline the components of medicines management schemes that could prove to be successful as well as any barriers preventing the implementation of medicines management schemes.
	Title: Self Injury Tool Kit Published: January 2008 Summary: A Recovery and Evidence Based Tool Kit. One of the momentums for this tool kit is the 2007 Trust-wide Self-Injury Audit, where 100% of services in the Trust identified the need for a Trust-wide tool kit in the assessment, care and treatment of people who self-injure.

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Home » Care planning » Engagement » Treatments » Solution focused therapy

Title: Flier for SFT General Broadcast Published: 2008 Summary: Flier to promote Skills Workshops for Solution Focused  Engagement in Acute In Patient Wards. SFT is highly appropriate to acute settings as it is brief, non-pathologising and can be learned and applied by all direct care staff, including those in support roles. Flier includes information on Background, Workshop Aims, Outline of content, Trainer and Course fees.

Title: SFT Ward Review chart Summary: Pre – Ward Round / Weekly Review form. Sections include Behaviour and Mental State, Activities and Engagement , Usefulness of Medication and Time out of Hospital and Leave Arrangements.

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Home » Environment » Design and build

	Title: Laying The Foundations Published: May 2008 Summary: A service redesign and capital investment workbook for acute mental health care.
	Title: Capacity demand effectiveness Published: July 2005 Summary: Increasing capacity of 24 hour acute care - by Fiona Macmillan and Nick Adams. Report for the Acute Care Forum.
	Title: LTF template Summary: Laying The Foundations - Defining specific service aims and outcomes. The table in this document is designed as a downloadable template to assist you in developing and defining the specific service aims and desired outcomes for your local service.

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Home » Environment » Improving safe systems

Title: NPSA Independent Investigations Published: March 2008 Summary: Independent investigation of serious patient safety incidents in mental health services - Good practice guidance. This document describes ways in which the process of investigation can be improved and it supports the guidance. It will be relevant to SHAs, primary care trusts (PCTs), local authorities and all mental health trusts, including foundation trusts. Foundation trusts should make arrangements with their local SHA to ensure that the SHA will commission independent investigation of serious mental health patient safety incidents on their behalf.

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Home » Environment » Policies and practice

	Title: Study into conflict and containment Published: November 2007 Summary: A longitudinal study of conflict and containment on acute psychiatric wards - Report to the DH Policy Research Programme. The aims of this study were to assess the relationship between nurses' positive appreciation of patients, nurses' emotional self regulation, the effective structuring of the ward's rules and routine, and rates of conflict and containment.
	Title: Focus on PICU FINAL Published: February 2008 Summary: Focus on: Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs). This document is one of a series of documents produced by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement as part of their High Volume Care programme Produced by the Delivering Quality and Value Team, the aim of the Focus on series is to help local health communities and organisations improve the quality and value of the care they deliver.
	Title: Framework for Human Rights Local Action Published: March 2007 Summary: Human Rights in Healthcare – A Framework for Local Action. Department of Health, the British Institute of Human Rights and 5 NHS Trusts have worked in conjunction to produce this framework to assist NHS trusts to develop and apply human rights based approaches (HRBAs) in their organisations to improve service design and delivery.
	Title: From Exclusion to Inclusion Published: 2008 Summary: From Exclusion to Inclusion – The Way Forward to Promoting Social Inclusion of People with Mental Health Problems in Europe.
	Title: Keys to a Positive First Impression Published: 1998 Summary: Explanation of key steps to be taken to ensure a positive first impression is made leading to greater patient satisfaction.
	Title: Privacy and Dignity - the elimination of mixed sex accommodation Published: 2008 Summary: Privacy and Dignity - The elimination of mixed sex accommodation. Good Practice Guidance and Self Assessment Checklist. This guidance outlines 11 key principles to support the achievement of good physical separation of the sexes in hospital accommodation. It includes a self-assessment checklist to help trusts identify issues that need to be addressed. The document builds on the recent Department of Health report ‘Privacy and Dignity – a report by the Chief Nursing Officer into mixed sex accommodation in hospitals’ (DoH 2007).
	Title: Refocusing the care programme approach final Published: March 2008 Summary: Refocusing the Care Programme Approach - Policy and Positive Practice Guidance. Following the national consultation, Reviewing the Care programme Approach (CPA), and having considered the issues identified, this guidance updates policy and sets out positive practice guidance for trusts and commissioners to review local practice to refocus CPA within mental health services.
	Title: What's the story web Summary: Reporting Mental Health and Suicide. A resource for journalists and editors. This handbook is packed with useful facts, figures and contacts. It is designed to help you do your job when covering these stories, whether you’re a print, broadcast or magazine journalist.

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Home » Recovery » Improving recovery

Title: Making recovery a reality - policy paper Published: March 2008 Summary: This policy paper presents some of the key ideas and examines their implications for the delivery of mental health services. It is not the last word on the topic of recovery; rather it aims to open up debate about how the recovery approach can be put into practice and what services need to do to make it happen.

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Home » Recovery » Self direction

Title: A voice and choice Published: September 2007 Summary: Self Directed Support by people with mental health problems - A Discussion Paper by Rita K. Brewis. This discussion document considers how Self Directed Support can help people with mental health problems achieve the same rights to full citizenship as others.

 

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Home » Recovery » User involvement

Title: MERSYCARE Involving Service Users and Carers Summary: The aim of this handbook is to share what Mersey Care staff have learned about involving service users and carers. We hope that it will encourage other organisations including NHS Trusts to be innovative and creative and we hope that it will inspire service users and carers elsewhere in the country to get involved and make a difference.

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Home » Partnerships » Formal partnerships » Dual diagnosis

	Title: Risk assess policy in new format Published: September 2007 Summary: The Management of risks with clients who have co-occurring mental health and substance misuse problems. This policy details risk assessment in relation to substance misuse (drugs and alcohol) for those individuals who also experience mental health difficulties. Title: Additional Risk assess summary form Summary: Additional Dual Diagnosis Risk Assessment Summary and Management Plan (for clients with mental health problems who misuse substances.)
	Title: Acute Ward Liaison in Psychiatric services across Nottinghamshire Summary: The Nottinghamshire Dual Diagnosis team has been running regular acute unit liaison clinics for a number of years in the city. The purpose of the clinics are to support in-patient psychiatric staff in instigating assessments and care plans for those people with co-morbid mental health and substance misuse problems.
	Title: Good practice guidance final Published: July 2004 Summary: This guidance has been written for staff on in-patient units in order to help them implement the most appropriate approach to helping clients to address their substance misuse problems whilst they are an in-patient. It also offers advice on the most appropriate way to deal with clients who take drugs or deal (offer to sell, exchange or give or supply) substances to other clients.

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Title: Alcohol Strategy Toolkit Published: January 2008 Summary: Safe, sensible, social. Alcohol strategy local implementation toolkit. This toolkit is a resource to help local teams develop strategies to address alcohol-related crime, ill health and other harms in line with Safe. Sensible. Social. The next steps in the National Alcohol Strategy.

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Home » Partnerships » Formal partnerships » Gender

Title: Informed Gender Practice: Mental health acute care that works for women Published: June 2008 Summary: This document explains why and in what way women’s needs are different to men’s and how this affects their experience on the ward. It offers practical guidance to multidisciplinary teams on best practice in relation to the care and support of women as inpatients.

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