Question

Should there be a weekly home visit by the psychiatrist?

Problem description

In Birmingham we’ve noticed that the psychiatrist is accompanying a team member to do the intake, and that he visits the user weekly in order to reassess the situation.  Our clients have to go to the psychiatrist, and this only once

Impact - effect

For our team, the presence of the psychiatrist at the intake would be an added value.  The home situation offers a quite comprehensive picture of the problem. A subsequent weekly monitoring at home by the psychiatrist seems of great value.  It creates far more options for him to lead the team

To do

To do: to increase the availability of psychiatrists (increase their hours)

Theme

Role of psychiatrists

Topic

Number of hours/week available for the team, number of WTE psychiatrist (full-time, part-time..)

Reference -  contact

Heidi Peeters, Nieke Plessers

Mobile team

2a

Project

Reling

Intership abroad - place

Birmingham (CRHT Solihull)

Date

May 2014