Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

“Creation of an urgent care assessment team to concentrate specifically on the assessment of patients who are in crisis. This approach has been piloted and has demonstrated that having an urgent care assessment team improves outcomes for patients at this vulnerable time. The substantive team will be in place by the end of September 2016”

“One consultant psychiatrist will form part of each home treatment team to ensure that all patients who are presenting high levels of risk have daily access to medical review or medical opinion. This will be in place across all of our home treatment teams by the end of October 2016”

“We will take action with regards to managing the breach of policy The Senior Nurse for Professional Standards issued a formal practice alert on 12th September 2016 to registered and unregistered clinicians in our crisis and community teams to reinforce the requirements for: Clinical Risk Assessments regarding risk of self-harm and/or suicide; Risk Assessments with regard to medicines management and self-medication; Safe administration of medication as per current Medicines Code and NMC Code.”

“NHS England recently established an adult mental health programme which is taking a whole system approach comprising crisis, acute, and community/primary care work streams. The acute care work stream has been developed in response to a number of recommendations set out by the Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care and The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, and is particularly relevant to the concerns outlined in your report.”

“was to write to you again in March 2016 to confirm that all future actions have indeed been delivered.”

“The night staffing level for HMP. Birmingham was reviewed. when responsibility for its Operation was transferred to G4S, and NOMS is ste that it is acceptable. G4S has chosen to deploy a Prison Custody Officer (PCO) to patro] the healthcare centre at night, and this is beyond the public sector benchmark which would require the use. an Operational Support Grade (OSG) for this purpose. This allows extr: flexibility, as a PCO is trained and authorised to perform additional dutles, such-as to unoch”