Question

How can we, already now, take into account the impact of an increased awareness of the existence of the mobile crisis team on the type of demands and referrers?

Problem description

If we do not already now look ahead in a proactive manner, we will have the risk that an increased awareness of our existence will be very attractive for professionals and services in our region to appeal to. Team ERIC can look back more than 20 years, and the type of referrer has significantly changed (from exclusive professional request, to all kind of persons and services, including patients themselves, their family, police, fire brigade, social services, etc.)

Impact - effect

We learn that this will have an impact on the target group, that will increase, thus also the casload will increase, that a mobile team should habe operation hours 24/7, and there will be a shift in focus in access (receipt of demands) through the use of an extended screening

To do

To do: to be alert for the consequences of an increased awareness, on the type of referrals, and anticipate at policy level.  We already receive demands that are not adequate for our MTA.  In these cases it becomes a matter of clarifying the role and position of our MTA, to explicate why a request is not adequate for a specialised mobile crisis team as ours, but rather for PZT (psychiatric home care) and function 1

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

critical success factors for starting up and further development/deployment

Reference -  contact

Bregwin Vantieghem, Marleen Lierman

Mobile team

2A

Project

Ieper-Diksmuide

Intership abroad - place

E.R.I.C.

Date

April 2014