A Cavendish Square Group publication 41 Limelight areas and areas of specific expertise Community Mental Health NELFT has organised all of its mental health services around the service user journey/their care pathway. This has resulted in NELFT having one of the lowest mental health inpatient bed bases in London, resulting in more people avoiding hospital admission and being cared for at home. NELFT’s multi-professional community mental health services, including its Home Treatment Teams and Outreach Teams, provide intensive, extensive input to service users with functional mental illness or dementia who otherwise would have been admitted to hospital for care. Mental Health Direct NELFT provides a 24/7 crisis support telephone service for service users where they can access clinical help and advice to try to avoid hospital admission. Health and Social Care NELFT’s Havering and Redbridge schemes for integrated health and social care are two of only 14 sites nationally to be declared a ‘pioneer’ by the Government. Integrated Services The NELFT single point of access for children’s services to integrate physical and mental health care is one of the first in the country. Fully integrated physical health and mental health service for children is one of the first in the country. Recovery and Rehabilitation NELFT provides high quality services to people with psychotic illnesses. NELFT is leading the way in mentalisation-based therapies, particularly for adolescents who self-harm. Perinatal Mental Health Services The perinatal parent infant mental health services (PPIMHS) is one of the first specialist psychiatric and psychological services in England that works with mothers-to-be and new mothers of babies up to the age of two who experience or may experience mental health problems, including post natal depression. The PPIMHS service has won national and international acclaim, is seen as an example of best practice internationally, and has featured in high profile BBC documentary on postnatal mothers. Open Dialogue NELFT is leading on a ground breaking national multi-centre Open Dialogue pilot that seeks to transform the model of health care provided to patients with major mental health diagnosis such as schizophrenia. The Trust has set up the national Open Dialogue programme and are currently training mental health professionals across England in this new technique. This will mean the only dialogue that takes place about a mental health service user is when they and their care network is present, which has been proven to increase recovery rates and decrease lengthy hospital admissions. Dementia Services NELFT provides high quality, NICE compliant services for people with dementia, Alzehimer’s and memory problems. Our services deliver focussed interventions with clear outcomes, which will optimise an individual’s functioning, promoting independence and encourage service users to participate in shared decisions about their future. The Japanese Ministry of Health is looking to adopt the NELFT dementia care pathway model and our clinicians regularly contribute to Parliamentary Committees on dementia and the World Dementia Summit. The NELFT Dementia Crisis Support Team, which provides rapid response and specialist multi-disciplinary intervention and assessment to people in crisis to help them avoid hospital admission, features in the Department of Health best practice video for innovative dementia care in the UK.
London Mental Health Fact Bbook
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