Full record(s)
|
Record no: |
1 of 1 |
|
|
Author: |
||
|
Title: |
Defining mental health services: promoting effective commissioning and supporting QIPP |
|
|
Publisher: |
London: NHS Confederation. Mental Health Network, 2012. 25p. |
|
|
Abstract: |
Health and social care commissioners and service providers are focusing on the importance of quality and productivity as ways of ensuring better outcomes, improved service models and effective interventions. In mental health there has not been a consistent set of definitions that describe what is meant by an inpatient bed. This has led to difficulty in benchmarking and understanding patterns of performance. Understanding how inpatient beds and community services can best be utilised as part of a reshaped pathway, and whether the number of beds can be further reduced over time, with an appropriate mix to meet local need, is a key component in a commissioner’s knowledge base. This report seeks to address those variations of understanding by suggesting a range of definitions that can be used by commissioners and service providers. The work to develop the definitions has benefited from the contributions of a range of experts in the field of mental health. |
|
|
Full text: |
||
|
Format: |
book; |
|
|
Topics: |
commissioning; mental health care; patient admission; patients; resource allocation; |
|
|
Country/Region: |
||
|
Record ID: |
www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=f7e8af08-e1ab-49d1-a0e1-1827e553face |
|
|
|
||
|
|
||