Question

Is there any chance it is going to work without a psychiatrist?

Problem description

Currently, Hermes Plus does not have a psychiatrist in the team. But we can ask the opinion of psychiatrists from the hospital (one of the founding partners of Hermes Plus), and from an ambulatory MH-Centre, or the treating psychiatrist.  If desirable, they are also willing to meet the patient

Impact - effect

The psychiatrists of our partners are not always available. Moreover, sometimes the mobile team is considered by the relatives of the patient as “full-fledged”, because of the lack of availability of a team psychiatrist

To do

Further explore the possibility to make a psychiatrist available for the team a couple of hours, but particularly during clinical meetings and, eventually, to meet the patient.  But this has to be considered very well, caution and purposiveness is warranted.  In Lille-East we noticed that the psychiatrist has a strong central position, and that neither the patient nor the other team members were strongly involved.  There was little opportunity for clinical discussion

Theme

Role of psychiatrists

Topic

clinical leadership

Reference -  contact

Steven Lambrecht, Suzy Van Hecke (Hermesplus, crisisteam)

Mobile team

2A

Project

Hermesplus

Intership abroad - place

Lille

Date

June 2013