Question

Can a mobile team release a client step by step?  And how?

Problem description

We are in need of criteria to accomplish a treatment. This is often not  just an internal decision, cause a member of a mobile team is sometimes appointed as care mediator, i.e. the person who takes the initiative to organise a Psychiatric Patient Consultation.  These consultations are organised by the primary care of first line collaborative initiatives (and funded by the NIHDI -  the National Institute of Health and Disability Insurance)

Impact - effect

It’s not the easiest thing to do, as team member, quitting the network of partners around the client when the team argues that the case can be closed.  There has to be a next step, a relay, you need to know which partners to consult for this purpose, who can take over the role of care mediator and the network coordination (at client level, around the client)

To do

To do: develop a watch&wait vision and approach. In NHN this means that clients are removed from the active caseload (“written out”), but not “written off”.   The client returns to the GP, the GP takes on the “watch”-function

Theme

Continuing care pathway

Topic

Actors involved (services, professionals), “who”

Reference -  contact

Stefaan Dhaese, Petra Defraeye

Mobile team

2B

Project

Noord West-Vlaanderen

Intership abroad - place

Noord-Holland-Noord

Date

October 2012