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Crisis resolution teams and the role of the service user development worker

01 March 2006

Mental Health Practice

Crisis resolution

Mental health crises and emergencies need rapid and effective intervention for the safety of patients, their carers and the general public. Yet the National Service...

The Productive Ward: encouraging teambuilding and innovation

01 April 2011

Nursing Management

Feature

The aim of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s Productive Ward series is to remove wasteful activities from ward processes and reinvest the time saved...

How can care staff get involved in research?

01 February 2022

Nursing Older People

Evidence and practice

Research is a systematic and rigorous way of collecting and analysing data, and presenting the process and its outcomes to others. This is in contrast to nursing’s...

Introducing the role of therapeutic liaison worker in acute care

08 June 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

An acute mental health ward successfully piloted the role of therapeutic liaison worker (TLW) to co-ordinate multidisciplinary team members, healthcare assistants,...

The link nurse: an approach to seamless discharge from a mental health unit

01 October 2004

Mental Health Practice

Care

Staff on Fosse Ward, an acute mental health inpatient unit in Leicester, recognised that patients’ discharges can be delayed due to factors such as limited family...

Prison in-reach mental health nursing

12 March 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Surveys have shown that over 90 per cent of the prison population have a diagnosable mental illness, substance abuse problem, or both (ONS 1998). There is general...

Investigating continuity of care in a mental health crisis resolution team service

06 July 2021

Mental Health Practice

Service users

This article details an audit that was undertaken to explore the extent to which a crisis resolution team (CRT) service in Leicestershire, England, provided...