Wouldn’t it be nice to talk to someone who was dedicated to the mental health service, that was well versed in every available service, who could assess what your needs were and which was the best way to proceed?
The author gives the scheme a rave review
Well take a look at this,
a pilot scheme to do exactly that. The benefits including shorter waiting times to first appointment (within 2 weeks), fewer ‘do not attends’ (down 15% on national level), lower incidence of inappropriate referral, GPs prescribing lowered due to quick turn around on appointments, increased patient satisfaction. Blimey it seems they’ve come up with something that really will help everyone; even the GPS are saying they like it. This article in the nursing times about mental health triaging
I can say that, in all of my 21 years as a qualified mental health nurse, the 31 months in this role have been the most enjoyable. More importantly, however, I believe that in my time with the PMHS (primary mental health team) I did the most important, clinically effective and statistically significant work of my career to date.
However, despite this, the article states that due to difficult finical decisions and restructuring it has been
... disbanded and subsumed into a new, larger team - which also had to take on some of the work previously done by CMHTs - very similar triage work is going on in GP practices around the county, and now every surgery is covered.
So lucky old Gloucestershire however for the other counties it seems we are still trying to catch up with a scheme that would greatly benefit all those involved in the process of providing care for people with mental health issues.
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