Brandon Singh Rayat
6 Sept 2017 · Coroner Dianne Hocking · Leicester City and Leicestershire South
The coroner's concerns
1. lack of mental health care for children unable to attend hospital
“That there is no provision of mental health care for children in Leicestershire who due to their anxiety are unable to attend hospital for treatment. There is a CRISIS team for children but I have been told that this cannot fulfil the function of long term treatment.”
Responses
2017-0231-Response-by-Department-of-Health.pdf ↗· East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group
Stated action · April 2017
“The CCG confirmed that both these services are able to provide home visits and, in the case of the new Crisis and Home Treatment service, there is now a home treatment team dedicated to undertaking home treatment.”
2017-0231-Response-by-Leicestershire-and-Rutland-NHS-CCG.pdf ↗· East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group
Stated action · April 2017
“treatment The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Groups (LLR CCGs) commission a range of Children and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHs) to meet different levels of need, which is led by Leicester City CCG, our lead commissioner. These include an outpatient and community service that has been operational for over 6 years and last year, in April 2016, the new Crisis and Home Treatment service was introduced and has been fully operational since April 2017. Both of these”