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Multi-disciplinary team assessments
— a method of improving the quality and accessibility of old age psychiatry services | | Author(s) | Chris Simpson, Prasanna de Silva |
| Journal title | Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 27, no 9, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp 346-348 |
| Keywords | Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Home visits [doctors] ; Mental disorder ; Screening ; Referrals ; Psychiatric treatment ; Evaluation ; North Yorkshire. |
| Annotation | Although not new, multi-disciplinary team assessments provide a method of increasing the capacity to see referrals. The authors report on two similar systems of multi-disciplinary team assessments from North Yorkshire, with evidence of improving quality. With the joint assessment clinic (the Thirsk and Wensleydale model), all referrals are sent to the community mental health team (CMHT), discussed, and then allocated. Joint domiciliary assessments have been used in Whitby for 6 years: two members of the team see each patient (and carer) at home over the next week, reporting back at the next referral meeting, and the care plan then confirmed. There are relative merits in each approaches, but both need different organisation arrangements. However, both have succeeded in increasing the capacity for assessing older people, resulting in a removal of waiting lists when referrals have increased. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030930201 A |
| Classmark | L6G: L5H: E: 3V: L5R: LP: 4C: 8NY |
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