Category: Royal College of Psychiatrists

Royal College of Psychiatrist

Eliminating inappropriate out of area placements in mental health

Source: Royal College of Psychiatrist

The government’s deadline to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements for adult acute patients by the end of March 2021 has now been missed by a full year. Sometimes hundreds of miles away from home, patients are unable to access their usual support networks while at their most vulnerable, often finding their care seriously disrupted, with long-term implications for their recovery. The NHS spent £102 million on inappropriate out of area placements in the 12 months up to and including March 2022 – the equivalent to the cost of the annual salary of more than 900 consultant psychiatrists. This briefing sets out the urgent action the NHS should take to ensure all patients get the care they need from properly staffed, specialist services in their local area.  

CPD Online

Migration to new platform complete

From 1st April The Royal College of Psychiatry’s CPD Online is moving to a new platform which can be accessed here: eLearning Hub (rcpsych.ac.uk) or via OpenAthens.

We would like to remind you that all certificates should be downloaded by 31st March as they have not been transferred to the new platform.

Please contact the library team academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk if you have any questions.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Changes to CPD Online

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has informed us that they have upgraded their online learning provision to a new site, RCPsych eLearning Hub.  This is replacing the current website for CPD Online.

The new site is a long-awaited improvement to users eLearning experience with both new and improved content, better accessibility and interesting interactivities, while keeping the same excellent level of learning.

Individual users have been migrated across to the new eLearning Hub however, the college are unable to access or migrate completed certificates to their new platform.

If you are a CPD Online user could you please ensure that you access your account and download your certificates if you have not done so already. Please note, this should be done before 18th October 2021.

Please contact the library team academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk with any queries.

RCPsych CPD Online

Update on accessing the resource

Several members of staff have reported problems accessing this resource recently, however, we can now confirm that this issue has been resolved by the Royal College.

Our apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

If you have any queries about this or other resources please email the library team academic.library@lancashirecare.nhs.uk

Exploring Mental Health Inpatient Capacity across Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in England

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit’s Strategy Unit, November 2019

Royal College of Psychiatrists commissioned report from Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit’s Strategy Unit and explores the pressures on inpatient mental health services across Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in England, drawing on a wide range of datasets, published research and interviews with staff working on mental health services. It finds hundreds more NHS mental health beds are needed in England to help end the practice, known as out-of-area placements (OAPs – sending severely ill patients far from home for treatment). The report explores the pressures on inpatient mental health services across Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in England, drawing on a range of datasets, published research and interviews with staff working on mental health services.

Click here to view the full report.

Response from the Royal College of Psychiatrists: Exploring mental health inpatient capacity

Royal College of Psychiatrists, November 2019

Royal College of Psychiatrists response to the report they commissioned from the Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit’s Strategy Unit ‘Exploring Mental Health Inpatient Capacity accross Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in England’. The college call for:

• a national programme to support mental health providers to ensure time spent in hospital has clear clinical objectives and value and that all mental health trusts undertake local assessments of the demand for services in their area and make changes to their services accordingly (based on a Quality Improvement approach)

• continued investment in high-quality community mental health services in line with Long Term Plan and the new Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults.

Click here to view the report.

Working well together: evidence and tools to enable co-production in mental health commissioning

Royal College of Psychiatrists, May 2019
This resource was commissioned by NHS England to support delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan and the resource provides the evidence and tools to enable coproduction in mental health commissioning.  The document aims to improve local strategic decisions about, and the provision of, current and future mental health services for children, young people, adults and older adults.   The recommendations from this document are aimed at commissioners of mental health services, as well as people who need mental health services, their families, friends and carers, and those who work in mental health care and support.
Click here to access the resource.