Identifying and Treating Early and Acute Psychosis – Online Workshop

The main objective of this online workshop was to raise awareness about symptoms of psychosis and how to support individuals and families experiencing prodrome, early and acute psychosis in different settings ranging from primary care, community mental health and acute hospital. You can view the slides shared by the speakers from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Psychiatric Liaison by clicking …

EIP Race Equality Project

Race Equality Image

Introduction People from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to access community mental health services but are over represented in acute and more restrictive settings[1]. Their experience of services mirrors that of staff from ethnic minority groups: it is often more negative than their white counterparts and many of them report that they have never been asked about what impact …

Improving Consistency in Access and Treatment in EIP

In 2019 , we noted a year on year decrease in the number of people able to access EIP from 4,130 in 2016 when the psychosis standards were first introduced, down to 3,780 in 2019.  Without the extra investment described in the Five Year Forward View and NHS Long Term Plan, EIP teams had reported that they struggled to achieve NICE …

Patient Safety During Transfers

The Thames Valley Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Best Practice group is made up of clinicians, managers, researchers and commissioners from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Milton Keynes. The group was set up to improve quality of EIP services and has been meeting since June 2014. Its early work used data from electronic health records from 2010-2013 to show that areas …

Mental Health in the NHS Long Term Plan

NHS England have published the NHS Long Term Plan to set out priorities for the system and guide delivery of care. The policy is a 136 page document which some might not have time to read, so it is welcome that NHS England (Thames Valley) have made a short summary via this helpful infographic:

Improving Physical Health in Mental HealthCare

Background: It is well documented that psychotic disorders are linked with significant long term physical health conditions and reduced life expectancy of 15-20 years below the general population. Cardiovascular disease, weight gain and obesity and diabetes are the greatest contributors to this reduction in life expectancy. What We did: In partnership with the AHSN, Time4Recovery and Livefit, Berkshire’s EIP Service …

EIP Workforce Innovation & Development

  Workforce is one of the biggest risks to delivering the ambitions of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. As such, you will not be surprised to hear that we have spent a fair amount of our time exploring a range of scenarios and options with clinicians, managers and commissioners. At the same time, Health Education England have …

Early Intervention Psychosis Pilot Peer Review in Programme Launched in the South West

In 2015/16, a new access and waiting time standard was introduced to ensure that more than 50% of people experiencing first episode psychosis commence a NICE recommended package of care within two weeks of referral. To complement the quantitative assessment of this service the South West Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Peer Review pilot programme aims to provide a qualitative perspective on …