Healthy London Partnership
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Is mental health crisis care in London in crisis?
A variety of organisations support people in crisis in London and they are working more closely together than ever before to improve crisis…care services, as Dr Emma Whicher, medical director at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and clinical lead for Healthy London Partnership’s Mental Health Crisis Care Programme, explains in this guest blog. ¶ No one attending London’s first mental health crisis care summit recently was in any doubt that the services and care for Londoners in crisis need to change urgently. ¶ As the London Health Commission report, Better Health for London, said: “crisis care in London…
Healthy London5 days ago
Why do our plans for improvement not always produce the results we want them to?
You can use plan, do, study, act (PDSA) cycles to test an idea by temporarily trialling a change and assessing its impact. However, we don…’t often use this approach in a healthcare setting because traditionally we introduce new ideas without sufficient testing. ¶ If you’re running an improvement programme then the PDSA cycle is critical to your success — but I wonder just how often we find the time, space and inclination to make it work? ¶ The planning phase needs to be evidence based and not just purely aspirational. Setting goals and objectives requires a sensible approach using historical data, benchmarking best-in-class…Healthy London5 days ago