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Making progress: older adult functional assessment wards: visit and monitoring report
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report details the findings from the visits to twenty four NHS wards providing acute assessment for older people with functional mental illness in Scotland and contains recommendations to improve patient care. Functional mental illness includes common conditions such as depression and anxiety, and rarer conditions such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder, bipolar affective disorder and obsessional compulsive disorder. The care of 128 individuals was reviewed, and attempts were made to hear their views where possible, including the views of 15 unpaid carers – most often family member or close friends. The review found that just about a quarter of care plans were felt to have a good amount of individualised and personalised content, with just over half having some individualised person centred content. The rest had non-individualised generic content. The majority of patients were able to give information about staff availability and felt staff were easily available and approachable. Nearly all patients were being reviewed at least weekly by their psychiatrist, with the remainder being reviewed every fortnight but there was considerable variation in levels of input from clinical psychologists in different wards. Only about half of patients said they had access to advocacy, half were either unaware of, or did not have access to, advocacy. Detained patients were more likely to be aware of advocacy. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland: summary of outcomes from focussed visits 2010-11
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Between April 2010 and March 2011, the Commission undertook 87 focussed visits to people receiving care for mental health problems or learning disability in various settings. A total of 301 recommendations for improvement were made following these visits. When followed up, it was found that services had taken satisfactory action in 76% of cases. This paper reports on the main issues emerging from 74 of those visits, and specific examples of improvements made by these services after the visits. These 74 visits were to people receiving treatment in the following types of care settings: intensive psychiatric care and secure units; care facilities for people with learning disability; older people in hospital; older people in care homes; people with mental disorders in prison; young people's care facilities; mental health continuing care and rehabilitation facilities; and adult acute admission wards. Many of the recommendations addressed principles of Scottish mental health and incapacity legislation, the articles of human rights legislation and other international conventions. The most common issues raised were: care environments that did not appear to meet people's right to privacy and dignity; care plans that did not appear to comply with the principles of maximum benefit, participation and the range of options available; and lack of attention to physical health.
Standards for mental health services for older people; the health advisory service 2000
- Authors:
- FINCH Jenny, ORRELL Martin
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 48p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Describes the standards of the Health Advisory Service for mental health services for older people, which underpin the work of the organisation as it carries out its remit of evaluating, inspecting and advising services. Standards are presented in simple list form to give the reader an understanding of their breadth and content, and there is a brief description of how the standards were developed. Contents include: what the HAS 2000 is, and what it does; development of the standards; the standards and criteria.
Report on services for mentally ill people in the Cambridgeshire Health District
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. HEALTH ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- National Health Service Health Advisory Service/Great Britain.Department of Heal
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Coverage includes: opinions from the community; services in the community (including nursing, remedial, day, outpatient and social services); inpatient services; and services to special groups of patients (including elderly, children, young people, ethnic groups, and alcohol and drug abusers). Also looks at agencies and professionals involved and at cooperation between these.