Angus Health and Social Care Partnership

The key improvements in Angus Health and Social Care Partnership are:

Roll out of Health and Wellbeing Workers in every GP Practice to deliver Early Intervention and promote self-management
Establishment of an Adverse Event Management Process (With Standard Operating Procedures) to oversee all Red and Amber events - direct link between Adverse Event investigation outcomes and on-going improvement plans and associated governance and Improving family involvement in review process
Progressing Mental Health and Substance Misuse Co-Morbidity Pathway
Appointment of two Advanced Nurse Practitioners to support primary care
Appointment of two Senior Social Work Practitioners
Merged three Community Mental Health Teams into two, North and South Angus Community Mental Health Teams, reducing workforce challenges and promoting standard approaches
Suicide Prevention – we have commissioned two third sector providers to support people with a non-medicalised approach to suicide and support people bereaved by suicide
Community Mental Health Services/Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Interface – we have successfully piloted the Community Mental Health Services/Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service transition interface. This will be rolled out in 2020 across Dundee and Perth and Kinross
Established a Mental Health and Wellbeing Network which comprises of statutory, third sector and people with lived experience representatives. They act as a strategic planning group and information exchange
Approval for developing seven-day home treatment. Resources were transferred in 2019, with services going live in 2020 following staff appointments and induction and training