Mental Health
Community Mental Health Teams Older People (over 65)
Contact: Gary Newham, Integrated Team Manager Telephone: 01202 305143 email: gary.newham@dhft.nhs.uk
Integrated Community Mental Health Team Older People
Services provided are on a partnership arrangement between Borough of Poole, Dorset HealthCare NHS Trust and Poole Primary Care Trust. There are two Community Mental health teams in Poole: North and South. They each consist of consultants and other medical professionals, occupational therapists, social workers, care managers and community mental health nurses.
What we do
We provide assessment, treatment and support to older people with mental health problems, based on 3 guiding principles:
- Person centred care. We will listen to your views and those who care for you as we value the experience and skills of older people, recognising the differing needs of each person and developing services to respond to your individual needs.
- Partnership. Evidence of collaboration should be found at all levels; between organisations; between professionals; between you, family members and professional carers.
- Evidence-based Practice. Services should utilise evidence from research and have robust systems for evaluation and continuous development.
How to make a referral
- Referrals for social care: please contact the helpdesk.
- Referrals for health assessment: these should be made through your GP.
Services for people with dementia
Current project: At home with Assistive Technology (AT)Who do we help?
- People with early memory loss.
- People with functional mental illness eg. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression
- People with organic mental health concerns eg. alzheimer's, dementia
- Carers of older people with conditions mentioned above
What services are available?
- Home care.
- Day centre provision by Health, Social Services or the independent sector
- Respite care in accommodation to suit your assessed needs.
Community Mental Health Teams for Adults of Working Age (18-65)
Contact: Debbie Stevenson, Integrated Services Manager Tel: 01202 305062, email: Debbie.stevenson@dhft.nhs.uk
Community Mental Health Teams
The Poole Adult Community Mental Health Team is an integrated team, staffed by Health and Social Services. Team members include various grades of doctors (including consultant psychiatrists), social workers, support time and recovery workers, mental health carers officer, community mental health nurses, support administrative staff and psychologists.
The CMHT is based at Alderney Community Hospital, Ringwood Road, central within the community it serves in order to make it accessible to you, carers and their families, to facilitate rapid response and continuity of service provision and care.
Aims of the Service
Poole CMHT aims to provide a needs-led community mental health service for people with a severe mental disorder , that:
- gives advice on the management of mental health problems
- provides a seamless and integrated service so that you and carers receive flexible, holistic and responsive care
- provides treatment and care for those with more complex and enduring needs through focussing on individual needs
- eliminate any inequalities/differential outcomes experienced as a result of race, disability, gender, age, religious belief or faith or sexual orientation
- promote social inclusion and recovery for all
- delivers choice throughout your care pathway. These may include accessing Primary Care services, secondary care assessment, treatment and care and inpatient care
- improve joint working between Health and Social Care Services
Who do we help?
The criteria we work to is as follows:
- team members will principally, but not exclusively, focus their caseloads on those people who have a severe mental disorder. This will be determined through the assessment of risk and other medical/social factors identified within the Integrated Care Programme Approach (ICPA) Policy
- eligibility for a service from the Community Mental Health Team is determined by both diagnosis and acceptance criteria.
Diagnosis
The broad diagnostic categories of people to be served by community mental health teams are:- schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
- affective disorders such as mania, manic depression and moderate/severe depression, especially where recurrent
- eating disorders
- severe mental health problems following childbirth
- severe neurotic, stress related and somatoform disorder, such as severe phobias, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder which have not responded to appropriate treatment in primary care
- severe personality disorder co-existing with the above and/or personality disorder that causes significant distress to the patient and where they may benefit from specialist involvement.
Acceptance
Patients within these diagnostic groups will have high priority for acceptance on to caseloads where one or more of the following criteria exist:Risk factors
- current or recent moderate/high risk of intentional self harm
- failure to comply with treatment when this is judged to be necessary for improvement or at least maintenance of mental health
- moderate/high risk to others
- risk of harm to carers due to the stress of the caring role
- putting self at risk for example self-neglect
- risk of abuse by others, for example physical, sexual, emotional or financial
- co-existing alcohol or substance misuse (dual diagnosis/MICAA)
- frequent crises in recent past, leading to an increase in treatment
- needs for Care
- impaired ability to function effectively in the community without significant support from multiple agencies, including health
- longstanding need for care in undertaking activities of daily living
- behavioural disturbance which may lead to breakdown of current social situation
Duration of mental illness is not a necessary criterion for inclusion.
Where patients have a severe mental illness and a substance misuse problem, they will be the responsibility of the community mental health team.
What services are available?
The Mental Health Services provide assessment, treatment and care for adults of working age who require specialist mental health services.
For those who do require a service from the CMHT, you will be allocated a care co-ordinator who will agree a care plan with you. The care or treatment will be based upon the outcomes of the assessment and identified needs, and will always aim to enable you to increase your opportunities to be socially included, develop your independence and recover from the effect of your mental health problems.
Care and services are provided to clients who are subject to the provisions of the Mental Health Act (1983), including implementation of the Mental Health Act and Capacity Act.
How can you contact us?
Through your GP who will contact us directly.
For further information, please contact the Helpdesk. and ask for Gateway Team - the access point to Mental Health Services.
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