Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Completing an audit project
- I Disorders
- II Legislation
- III Physical health
- IV Record-keeping
- V Service provision
- 54 Early intervention teams
- 55 Emergency department: attendance
- 56 Information for in-patients on their rights
- 57 Interpreters
- 58 Liaison psychiatry: response time to referrals
- 59 Multi-agency working
- 60 Personal searches
- 61 Prison equivalence
- 62 Prison-to-hospital transfers
- 63 Seven-day follow-up
- 64 Substance misuse: Treatment Outcomes Profile
- 65 Transition from ‘choice’ to ‘partnership’ in the Choice and Partnership Approach
- 66 Transition planning in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- 67 Violent incidents: management
- 68 Waiting times
- VI Training
- VII Treatment
- Appendices
54 - Early intervention teams
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Completing an audit project
- I Disorders
- II Legislation
- III Physical health
- IV Record-keeping
- V Service provision
- 54 Early intervention teams
- 55 Emergency department: attendance
- 56 Information for in-patients on their rights
- 57 Interpreters
- 58 Liaison psychiatry: response time to referrals
- 59 Multi-agency working
- 60 Personal searches
- 61 Prison equivalence
- 62 Prison-to-hospital transfers
- 63 Seven-day follow-up
- 64 Substance misuse: Treatment Outcomes Profile
- 65 Transition from ‘choice’ to ‘partnership’ in the Choice and Partnership Approach
- 66 Transition planning in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- 67 Violent incidents: management
- 68 Waiting times
- VI Training
- VII Treatment
- Appendices
Summary
Setting
This audit will be relevant to all psychiatrists, though those working in and with services for early intervention in psychosis (EI) will find it especially useful.
Background
EI is a key component of modern mental health services in England (Department of Health, 2000). It involves the specialist support of people with first-episode psychosis aged 14–35 years and their families and comprises three concepts: the early detection of psychosis; a reduction in the duration of untreated psychosis; the importance of the first 3–5 years following onset (the critical period) for later biological, psychological and social outcomes.
Standards
The Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide (PIG) (Department of Health, 2001) provides a model for EI. On the basis of this model, the Department of Health specified eight minimum fidelity criteria against which providers could self-assess local EI services. These were expanded to give ten standards against which services were assessed in this audit:
ᐅ stand-alone service model
ᐅ dedicated consultant psychiatrist input
ᐅ full age range (14–35 years)
ᐅ care provided for up to 3 years
ᐅ assertive community outreach work
ᐅ extended opening hours
ᐅ case-loads of 10–15 per care coordinator
ᐅ adolescent provision
ᐅ primary care referral
ᐅ designated access to acute beds.
These criteria are included in the Department of Health's autumn assessment local delivery plan (LDP) returns (see also Tiffin & Glover, 2007).
Method
Data collection
Service managers within EI teams should ensure there is a system in place to document minimum data on all patients under their care and that operational descriptors accurately describe the service model. Information on patient age, referral source and interventions received were obtained from patient case files. Service managers should therefore be able to provide the data required within the audit ‘window’. A bespoke tool was used in the present audit, but an EI audit pro forma is available online as part of the LDP autumn assessment to assist efficiency of data collection and analysis (http://www.ic.nhs.uk/services/ mental-health/mental-health-minimum-dataset-mhmds).
Data analysis
ᐅ Individual service returns were collated to give a national overview of the current state of EI service development in England. Data were also available for each of the eight health regions in England. The data can be collated on a more local level for individual services.
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- 101 Recipes for Audit in Psychiatry , pp. 135 - 136Publisher: Royal College of PsychiatristsPrint publication year: 2011