Multi-disciplinary care reviews
Why we are interested in multi-disciplinary care reviews
We were interested in this because we believe that a partnership approach with people, their carers and a wide range of social and health care professionals is essential. This ensures a comprehensive assessment of the individual that considers their physical, psychological and emotional needs.
Many older people admitted to assessment wards are likely to be living with more than one long-term condition and we would expect individuals to have access to a comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment.
What we found
We found that reviews limited to medical and nursing input were much more common for people in dementia assessment wards. We found multi-disciplinary reviews confined to only nursing and medical input in half of all dementia assessment wards. Most review meetings in functional assessment and combined dementia and functional assessment wards involved other disciplines and the person and /or their relative or advocacy worker attending. Other disciplines would normally include social work, occupational therapy, psychology and physiotherapy amongst others.
Visit and monitoring reports
- Mental health of prisoners
- Left Behind
- Lives less restricted
- Focussed visit report 2010/11
- Not properly authorised
- Decisions for Dignity
- A Home of My Own
- A Question of Balance
- Half year statistics
- Care and treatment in adult acute wards
- Learning Disability Census 2010
- Where do I go from here?
- Greater expectations revisited report
- Young people in mental health services
- Rights, recovery and restriction report
- Supervision and support of private guardians
- Young people and welfare guardianship
- Care and treatment for people on short term detention
- Remember I'm Still Me
- Learning Disability Census 2008
- A Hospital or a Home
- Older and wiser
- Respect for diversity
- Missed opportunities
- Unnanounced visit report 2005
- Greater Expectations