Thursday 02 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6839
Date Request Received: 24/10/2022 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 08/11/2022 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: MH long waits ED
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: For each of the financial years from 2016-17 to 2021-22 and for 2022-23 to the latest completed month (likely end of October 2022), please outline how many mental health patients* (*ICD codes: F01-99) have had waits in emergency departments, from decision to admit to admission, discharge, or transfer of a) between 12 and 24 hours b) 24 to 48 hours c) 48 to 72 hours d) 72 hours or more? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to this question attached. Please note, any results less than or equal to five have been concealed to protect patient confidentiality. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI_6839 - MH Long Waits FOR ISSUE.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: For each financial year, please provide the length of wait for all occurrences of individual waits lasting 72 hours or more. | |
| Answer To Question 2: There were no occurrences of individual waits lasting 72 hours or more in the time period requested. | |
| Question Number 3: Please provide a list of occasions (with patient identifying details redacted) where the trust has contacted a partnering mental health trust, CCG, ICS, NHS England or other statutory body to notify that there were no mental health beds available within a) the ICS area b) the NHS region c) England, Scotland or Wales. | |
| Answer To Question 3: We do not hold this information. | |
| Question Number 4: As per the national Core 24 target, does your trust have an emergency mental health liaison team/liaison psychiatry team available to patients attending emergency departments?* | |
| Answer To Question 4: Yes | |
| Question Number 5: If yes, please provide a breakdown of staff employed in these roles by role, band and whether they are full-time equivalent or other.** (**If these staff are employed/managed by another organisation please provide any details available to the trust.) | |
| Answer To Question 5: The Mental Health Liaison Service for SDH is delivered by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Trust and thus people who deliver the service are not employed by SFT. The service is commissioned for 7.7 full time equivalent Band 6 Practitioner and one Band 7 Senior Practitioner full time along with a Band 7 Team Manager. Additionally, we have a full time Consultant Psychiatrist and an Administrator for 30 hours a week. Currently we have the equivalent full time of 5.6 with one being on Maternity Leave - covered by an Agency Long line of work nurse/RMN. We have appointed a further Band 6 who will hopefully start in December following completion of DBS check. This will bring us up to 6.6 Band 6 Practitioners. A post is currently out to advert for a further band 6 to complete and bring us up to compliment. One of the 5.6 posts currently employed is a Band 5 development post subject to Preceptorship. The team deliver assessment and liaison work to all areas of the hospital not just A&E for adults 18 and over. | |
| Question Number 6: If yes, please provide details as regards the hours the team are available to patients and typical staffing levels during those hours.** (**If these staff are employed/managed by another organisation please provide any details available to the trust.) | |
| Answer To Question 6: The commissioned service hours are as follows Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 8am - 9pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 8am - Midnight. For staffing levels please see answer to question 5 above. | |
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