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A Centre of Excellence in the treatment and care of people with Learning Disabilities since the late 1950’s
What Do We Do?
We provide assessment and treatment services for people with learning disabilities who have an additional mental disorder:
• Psychiatric Illness
• Severe Challenging Behaviour
• Co-existing complex neurological disorder
Main Services:• Specialist Psychiatric and Nursing Services
• Clinical Psychology
• Dental Services
•Physiotherapy
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Orthotics
• Social Work
• Daycare
• Podiatry
• Opened in the late 1950s/ early 1960s• Provides a regional specialist
assessment and treatment service for people with Learning Disabilities.
• Max Patient No.s 1980s - Over 800• Currently 290 Patients• Staff No’s 620 • Strategic Direction
– Resettlement of Long Stay Patients to the Community
– Reduction of Inpatient Bed Capacity – Assessment and Treatment Services
Muckamore Abbey Hospital
Strategic Direction
•Resettlement of Long Stay Patients to the Community
•Reduction of Inpatient Bed Capacity
•Assessment and Treatment Services
Meeting the Targets“Three major challenges facing the NHS; firstly patients must be put first at each point of contact with health and social
care services, second, all of the services that patients receive must be transformed
and finally, staff and particularly clinicians must be involved in shaping the
change
Patricia Hewitt MP
Secretary of State for Health
Targets
• Improving Quality of Service
• Access to Services
• Working in Partnership
• Service User Involvement
• Delivering Value for Money
In The Midst of Change:
• Redevelopment of Hospital Services
• Resettlement Programme
• Reprovision of Children’s Services
Specialist Hospital Services will be for People with Learning Disabilities who live in the community and:
•Who require Assessment and Treatment because of associated Mental Health or Behavioural Difficulties.
or
•Who require Assessment and Treatment in a semi-secure environment because of their offending behaviour.
Future Hospital Service
Quality Agenda
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Patient/Carer Involvement
• Standards/targets
• Development of a multidisciplinary audit tool
• Awards
User Involvement
Aim: To set out a plan to enhance service user involvement and to give guidance and information about involvement issues
Developing a Culture
• Build Trust
• Value People and their views
• Must be sustainable
• Equal Terms
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