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Accreditation for
Acute Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMS)
Accreditation of Library and Information Services in the Health
Sector
Autism
Accreditation
Better
Services for People who Self-harm
Child Health
Informatics Centre (CHIC)
CHKS
Clinical
Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd
Community of
Communities
Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS)
Health Promoting Hospitals and Trusts
The
Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health–UK (POMH-UK)
Quality Network for Forensic
Mental Health Services
Quality
Improvement Network for Multi-agency Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Services
Quality Network
for In-Patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (QNIC)
RDB Star Rating Ltd
(Residential and Domiciliary Care Benchmarking)
Trent
Accreditation Scheme |
Better Services for People who
Self-harm
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Corporate origins, affiliations, memberships |
The
programme is run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists’
Centre for Quality Improvement, in partnership with:
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The College of Emergency Medicine
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The Royal College of Nursing
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Mind
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The NICE National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health
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Various national self-harm and service-user support
groups
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Part-funded by the Health Foundation
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Objectives |
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To improve the
quality of care for those who access services
following an emergency admission for self-harm in
accordance with standards, including those in the
NICE guideline.
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Improve local
teams service user involvement in quality
improvement.
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Improve the
skills and knowledge of staff working with those who
self-harm.
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Improve joint
working between the groups of professionals working
with people who self-harm.
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Scope and focus of programme |
Local teams of professionals from acute emergency care,
mental health and the ambulance service work together,
along with service users, to review and improve the
service they provide. The programme is UK-wide |
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Products and services |
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Induction and Feedback workshops
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Training in leading a peer-review, change management
and sustaining change.
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Clinical Audit Data Collection
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Peer-review visits
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Local team reports detailing compliance against the
standards at baseline and at re-audit
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Reports detailing aggregated teams compliance
against standards at baseline and at re-audit
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Networking
and information sharing through an email discussion
group and newsletters
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A
range of change intervention tools including staff
training materials and service user information.
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Standards |
Available from the publications section of the website |
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Web-site |
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/cru/auditSelfHarm.htm |
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Executive, Director, Management Council, etc., as
appropriate) has given permission for a link to be made
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