Mental Health adult of The Reablement service Funded via Sirona’s main Impacts: The service The service has recently working age provides a pre and post crisis service contract helps to prevent people been redesigned reablement team intervention depending on escalating into acute (effective July 1) and so – where in the MH system clinical need. It also far it seems to be service users are. It undertakes helps people who are achieving its expected an initial assessment, develops recovering from an outcomes within the a support plan and then acute episode to agreed timescales. implements the plan. The reintegrate into the Performance in relation episode of support is normally community. to the redesign completed within 6-8 weeks Challenges: In some specification will be kept and the case is closed once the cases support is under review. service user’s needs have been required beyond the met and any onward time-limited service – signposting i.e. to community i.e. for more than 6-8 – networks or another provider weeks. However this – has been completed. can be managed through signposting. There are also occasions when a client is registered with a GP but resident in another local authority area and so pathways of care can be complicated.
Mental Health adult of working age reablement team The Reablement service provides a pre and post crisis intervention – depending on where in the MH system service users are. It undertakes an initial assessment, develops a support plan and then implements the plan. The episode of support is normally completed within 6-8 weeks and the case is closed once the service user’s needs have been met and any onward signposting – i.e. to community networks or another provider – has been completed. Funded via Sirona’s main service contract Impacts: The service helps to prevent people escalating into acute clinical need. It also helps people who are recovering from an acute episode to reintegrate into the community. Challenges: In some cases support is required beyond the time-limited service – i.e. for more than 6-8 weeks. However this can be managed through signposting. There are also occasions when a client is registered with a GP but resident in another local authority area and so pathways of care can be complicated. The service has recently been redesigned (effective July 1) and so far it seems to be achieving its expected outcomes within the agreed timescales. Performance in relation to the redesign specification will be kept under review.
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