Who are we?
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Specialist Mental Health Practitioners working on behalf of GP practices in the Basildon and Brentwood locality.
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Providers of mental health assessment and initial treatments within primary care.
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A key service in the integrated primary and community care (IPCC) network, with agreed referral pathways with other mental health and community care services.
What are our roles?
We will…
- Meet the mental health needs of the Basildon and Brentwood population either directly or by providing a trusted assessment and onward transfer to appropriate services.
- Bridge the gap between the IPCC and mental health complex needs services, with an increased focus on service integration and attendance to mental health multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Provide a two-way communication and service collaborations rather than rigid referral processes.
- Provide prevention and early intervention of mental health needs.
How we do it?
We…
- Provide a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment of patients’ mental health needs, with the prompt transfer of patient care to appropriate services when necessary.
- Facilitate increased access to psychological therapies and mental health support by working to a Trust Assessor agreement with other mental health services.
- Provide clinical advice and effective signposting to community mental health resources.
- Incorporate mental health promotion and wellbeing advice in our consultations.
How will your surgery benefit?
We will provide expertise in…
- Mental health clinical assessments, which will increase GP clinical capacity to assess and treat patients presenting in primary care with non-mental health concerns.
- Medication review and non-medical prescribing needs (where non-medical prescribing RMNs are available).
- Conducting thorough risk assessments and making appropriate and timely clinical decisions to help manage patient risk.
- Managing people with long-term mental health conditions discharged to primary care.
- Providing specialist advice and support to ensure mental health is taken on-board and considered as part of treatment and care in the surgery.
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