East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is providing operational and strategic support to mental health and learning disability services within agreed localities, as they work with patients at risk of admission to acute mental health hospitals, those who have been admitted and service users waiting to be discharged.
The aim is to encourage better understanding and service delivery to those patients with very complex needs.
The pilot is testing the transfer of responsibility for managing the processes of Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs) and Dynamic Support Registers (DSRs) back to a specialist NHS learning disability and autism provider.
It was launched to identify a new, patient-centred approach now that responsibility for them no longer sits with commissioners Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board (BLMK ICB), as outlined in the national Transforming Care programme to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and/or autism.
The programme started in parts of Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire. It has now been extended across BLMK.
It is being led by Samantha Morrison, ELFT Strategic Lead for Transforming Care – Bedfordshire (pictured).
“The focus for this pilot is to deliver more focused, clinical input into supporting patient journeys and experiences,” she said.
“It will also embed the Transforming Care framework across services and encourage better understanding and service delivery to those patients with very complex needs requiring support to prevent hospital admissions.”
ELFT professionals across BLMK are being asked to complete this quick survey to help identify the current level of TCP awareness within local mental health services and to plan what support might improve understanding.