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Delivering Specialist Mental Health Services 2019

dc.contributor.authorHSE Mental Health Service
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-19T11:32:56Z
dc.date.available2021-04-19T11:32:56Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10147/629125
dc.descriptionThe Mental Health Services and its staff are fully committed to the provision of high quality evidence based mental health. One of the key requirements for the delivery of quality services is the provision of information about the mental health services to stakeholders. This report is intended to meet this requirement for information. Mental Health Services consistently strive not only to develop mental health services but also to collect and analyse the data generated by services to inform continuous quality improvement. The focus on data collection is both to drive service improvement and to inform service users and other stakeholders on activities in mental health services. This report is one strand in ensuring that activity data is disseminated as widely as possible and that the good practice, and the challenges in mental health services are collected and the data used to inform and improve service delivery. Building on the success of the annual reports which were published by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services up to 2013, and on the Delivering Specialist Mental Health Services Reports 2014 to 2018, this 2019 report will provide an overview of the work of the specialist mental health services by describing the services delivered, detailing the resources available to the services and showing the activity of those services in 2019. The Service faces challenges in providing detailed information about its service provision as the information systems in place are reliant on manual data collection processes and are very labourintensive. This limits the type of data provided, and creates challenges in respect of validation, verification and analysis. The term mental health describes a spectrum that extends from enjoying positive mental health through to severe and disabling illness. Over 90% of mental health needs can be successfully treated within a Primary Care setting, with less than 10% being referred to specialist community based mental health teams. Specialist secondary care mental health services are provided to respond to the varied and complex clinical needs of those individuals with greater need. The mental health services provided include Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO) based Mental Health Services which comprise acute inpatient units, community based mental health teams (Child and Adolescent Mental Health, General Adult, MHID and Psychiatry of Later Life, etc.), day hospitals, out-patient clinics, continuing care settings and community residential services. Also included is the National Forensic Mental Health Service. Within the main specialties, certain sub-specialities including rehabilitation and recovery, liaison psychiatry, and perinatal psychiatry are provided. The community-based mental health services are coordinated and delivered through Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), which are designed to serve the needs of particular care groups across the lifespan from childhood to later life. Within this multidisciplinary team, a range of skilled professionals combine their unique expertise to provide integrated care to service users in the context of their local community.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHealth Service Executiveen_US
dc.subjectMental healthen_US
dc.subjectMENTAL HEALTH SERVICESen_US
dc.subjectSERVICE DELIVERYen_US
dc.subjectHEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENTen_US
dc.titleDelivering Specialist Mental Health Services 2019en_US
dc.typeReporten_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-04-19T11:32:56Z


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