Acute admission ward
This section encloses documents and practice clarifying the elements that make up the purpose and function of an Acute Admission ward.
 | Title: Star Wards Web page: http://www.starwards.org.uk Summary: Star Wards is working with partner organisations to help animate acute mental health wards, to improve patients' quality of time and treatment outcomes. It has collected a range of practical ideas for substantially improving inpatients' daily experiences. They range from the fun (regular comedy evenings) to the functional - a core programme of activities. Publication: Star Wards Leaflet: Leaflet |
 | Title: ICP for gate keeping bed management Published: May 2006 Summary: CR/HT Integrated Care Pathway (ICP). A document on Acute Care Referral for gate keeping protocol. |
 | Title: Blocked care pathways Published: February 2004 Summary: An article on the assessment of how trusts monitor acute mental healthcare by Lesley Warner and Angela Hoadley. |
 | Title: Code of professional conduct Published: April 2002 Summary: A code of professional cunduct by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. |
 | Title: Admission to the ward Summary: A strategy document that details the necessary components required to ensure care pathway development and implementation is undertaken in as systematic way thoughout the organisation. It considers roles and responsibilites arrangements for approval and monitoring of care pathways. The Strategy sets out a procedure that can be adopted by any trust. |
 | Title: The admission pathway Summary: The requirement to have clear "pathways", "liaison" or "links" between teams delivering mental health services is identified with all Policy Implementation Guides for services. This ICP has been developed with the intention to deliver those expectations and improve the standards of care for those service users who require in-patient care within East Lancashire. |
 | Title: Developing effective bed managament strategies Summary: Explaining the range of effective bed management strategies to maximise bed use and avoid inappropriate admissions. Title: Draft bed management strategy Summary: This Paper aims to provide a knowledge base to assist in defining the usage of the range of hospital and community beds. The intention is to produce information to inform service provision through analysis of need, and secondly the development of appropriate bed management strategies. |
 | Title: Auditing hospital and community beds Summary:A summary of auditing hospital and community beds, explaining types of individuals who occupy acute beds, the reasons preventing discharge and the factors which lead to bed blocking. |
 | Title: Bed management strategies Summary: A summary of bed management strategies including bed numbers and usage, planning for the local area, bed audit systems, individual related factors affecting bed usage, interagancy service components influencing bed usage, preventing inappropriate admissions and increasing admission throughout, providing effective discharge planning, providing safe alternatives to inpatient admission, business aspects and business plan: future services. |
 | Title: Restart care pathway Summary: Final restart care pathway document including Access to restart, Information gathering, Occupational therapy assessment, Intervention, Discharge, Review and evaluation. |