Amanda Burleigh

What if What if we worked collaboratively between NHS E/ Dept of Health/ Department for education to have a Health and Social care cross departmental strategy to evaluate the Positive and proactive impact of multiple pathfinder and family safeguarding models on use and outcomes of CYP services? https://lnkd.in/eBjQgpeF What if our workforce plan trained our amazing social workers in suicide prevention , maternal and paternal family universal level - psychological support. Psychological level interventions to support attachment and psychological safety in families. Parenting support to help families navigate and coach their children through bullying. A known risk to mental health. And a parenting family support route / pathway in Talking therapies What if the joint training plan recconnected our Family therapists, our Psychologists and our very expert family intervention colleagues to provide group supervision and intervention to be trauma sensitive and our colleagues and staff dealing with extreme trauma to also have on tap psychological support. What if we could collaborate to have multiple local authority partners to collaborate and would lead an evaluation and pilot that was already embedded with successful outcomes and we had an evaluation of working in this model from both nhs and social care outcomes. New metrics and this could show and clearly change children and family outcomes and reduce NHS activity? Pre and post metrics of family and individual outcomes. Depression in parents and child mental health scales, incidence of self harm and family cohesion. Measuring the impact of parenting support to reduce the harmful impact of harsh words, conflict and family distress? Does anyone want to help me make it happen? Why. Because our children and families need us and because the cost of mental ill health to Mums, Dads and our kids is huge and to UK plc is astronomical.. 🙏

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More action is needed to narrow gaps in care and improve women's health outcomes, according to a recent study. An assessment by the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) highlighted the need for more work around conditions such as endometriosis and poly-cystic ovary syndrome. To understand the impact of the issues identified by the ICB and "learn from lived experience", the Big Conversation initiative was launched last week. Its survey will gather views from women across the region on their experiences of health care. (Photo - the launch of The Big Conversation in Gateshead. Credit - North News and Pictures) https://lnkd.in/eCMdnfmG Women's health and the need for better research, understanding, and service provision, is an issue of great importance to NCWGB. We are currently working on resolutions regarding this topic. https://lnkd.in/euv8JGgs

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Extract-Record number of NHS mental health patients kept in hospitals longer than necessary The number of patients stuck in NHS mental health units in England despite being clinically ready to leave has reached its highest level in at least eight years. “Delayed discharges” of patients from hospitals in NHS mental health trusts reached 49,677 days in March, according to an analysis – a higher figure than in any month since at least January 2016, when NHS Digital started publishing the data… More than one in five delayed discharges in March were caused by patients having to wait for a care home place to become available, with a similar proportion caused by delays in finding supported housing. Other common factors include delays in providing non-hospital-based NHS care or social care in patients’ own homes. The highest number of delayed discharges were recorded at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS trust, in London, and East London NHS foundation trust. Dr Lade Smith, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: “Delays to discharge are very often caused by a lack of social care and local authority provision in the community. Many patients with severe mental illness have unmet housing needs or financial worries that pre-date their admission to hospital, meaning additional support is needed before they can return home. “Mental health social care providers help reduce people’s length of stay in hospital. They provide vital advice, community support and crisis services which also prevent people from needing to be admitted in the first place. The withdrawal of funding from social care and local authorities following the pandemic resulted in a sharp increase in the number of delayed discharges… Coroners have written to the Department of Health and Social Care warning of the impact of mental health bed shortages. In March, a coroner warned that 20 patients in Suffolk were stuck on a waiting list for an informal inpatient mental health bed, with none available elsewhere in the country, at the end of an inquest into a suicide that was directly attributed to a lack of mental health beds. An NHS England spokesperson said: “While services are being expanded and transformed thanks to £2.3bn NHS Long Term Plan funding, there is no doubt mental health services are under significant pressure… https://lnkd.in/eV8thCfy

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