Acute high dependency and PICU, In area acute beds, and specialist placement beds

Organisation

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

A service for those who present with an acute mental illness and who cannot be treated in their own homes or in community settings and will have been assessed as at significant risk of an event happening to themselves or others. Often requiring continuous assessment over a 24-hour period. The decision to admit a service user will be made by the provider referred to. The service user may have been assessed under the Mental Health Act (1983) or be admitted voluntarily. • This service is for adult service users from 18 with an age limit as per each identified Provider unit • Individuals with a learning disability need where the primary identified need. • Individuals with a dual diagnosis will be admitted if their presenting Primary issue is their mental state and a medical detoxification programme is no indicated as an initial stage of treatment Additional information: To respond to this opportunity please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/PJV356TN92

A service for those who present with an acute mental illness and who cannot be treated in their own homes or in community settings and will have been assessed as at significant risk of an event happening to themselves or others. Often requiring continuous assessment over a 24-hour period. The decision to admit a service user will be made by the provider referred to. The service user may have been assessed under the Mental Health Act (1983) or be admitted voluntarily. • This service is for adult service users from 18 with an age limit as per each identified Provider unit • Individuals with a learning disability need where the primary identified need. • Individuals with a dual diagnosis will be admitted if their presenting Primary issue is their mental state and a medical detoxification programme is no indicated as an initial stage of treatment

The aims of these services is to provide high quality, holistic care for service users when it has been identified that they have needs above and beyond commissioned services within NSFT. This will be provided in collaboration with service users, carers, statutory and non-statutory organisations, in order to ensure that any specialist placements are timely and appropriate. The key aims are to: • Provide a variety of psychosocial, psychiatric and therapeutic activities, in line with NICE Guidelines relevant to the presenting need of the service user. • Provide assessments, treatment and multidisciplinary care, in line with the identified needs. • Ensure that service users are within the placement for the minimum time necessary, supporting the service user to maintain their links in the community where possible and practical • Where relevant maintain or create links with primary care to ensure that the service user’s GP is updated on patient care at the time of assessment, admission, care plan review and any changes to care provided, where there is a significant change in a service user’s clinical presentation and/or risk and receives a discharge summary following discharge in line with NSFT’s discharge policy. • The Provider will ensure that there is a collaborative approach to care planning with NSFT and other care providers including the service users support network as they identify. • The Provider will operate within the legal frameworks.

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Application Deadline

5 April 2024

Closed

Estimated Value

£20,000,000

WAC Reference

WAC-117973

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