Question

Can the MCT(2a) and the Mobil teams (2b) Ghent have more crisis beds at their disposal in case of crises of their clients?

Problem description

It’s always a very intensive activity to find an available bed and an admission to hospital in case of a crisis of one of the users.  Often we have to call several general and psychiatric hospitals to examine the possibilities

Impact - effect

In the Netherlands the principle “bed on recept” is used. The Fact district team and the IHT (Intensive Home Treatment team) have a direct link with the provided crisis beds. This ensures that, in case an admissions in inevitable, an admission can be realised at short notice. This makes part of the function profile of the Fact-teams.  The Ghent 2b-teams only have a quicker access to an admission when the treating psychiatrist of the client has a direct link with a psychiatric hospital or a psychiatric unit of a general hospital

To do

To do: In the Netherlands, there was a long but a drastic evolution in an adjustment of the structure of mental healthcare. The organisation of healthcare was completely tailored to this new structure. In Flanders, working on care pathways only started a few years ago.  This alignment requires a lot of consultation and coordination between the various mental health stakeholders

Theme

Continuing care pathway

Topic

Coordination of an continuing care pathway

Référence – contact

Nadia De Vroe, Stijn Van Moorleghem

Mobile team

2b

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Noord-Holland-Noord

Date

February 2015