1. Home Based Crisis Team: initial steps towards recovery in the community
Dr. Sinead O’Brien.
Consultant Psychiatrist,
Home Based Crisis Team.
North Lee Mental Health Services.

2. Today..... Vision for Change City North Sector
Development of HBCT-City North.
Audit of case-load
Future Directions

3. A Vision for Change Person centred Recovery orientated
Holistic – all aspects of mental health: biological (e.g. medication), psychological (e.g. “talking therapies”) and social (e.g. housing, employment, education/training).

4. A Vision for Change
Community-based – provide services in communities where people live, reduce hospital admissions, more home-based treatments and outreach services.
Multi-disciplinary
Population Based

5. Mission Statement
To provide a home-based crisis assessment and multi-disciplinary treatment and intervention service for individuals presenting with acute psychiatric illness in City North sector. We endeavour to respect each individual’s rights and values.

6. Cork City North Sector Population: 53,000
2 Sector Multidisciplinary Teams.
CNW: Dr Ruth Collins
CNE: Dr Nataraj Gojanur

7. Cork City North Sector. Sector includes: Knocknaheeny Gurranabraher
Fairhill
Blackpool
Mayfield
The Glen.

8. RAPID
“Revitalising Areas through Planning, Investment and Development”.

9. RAPID aims to......
Increase the investment made by Government departments and state agencies in the 46 communities;  
Improve the delivery of public services through integration and coordination  
Enhance the opportunities for communities to participate in the strategic improvement of their areas.

10. Rapid Areas in Cork Knocknaheeny/Hollyhill/Churchfield
Blackpool /The Glen/Mayfield
Fairhill/Gurranabraher/Farranree
Togher/Mahon

11. Priorities of RAPID.... family support, physical environment, health,
community safety,
education,
employment
training and youth support.  

12. The Haase and Pratschke Index
uses 3 dimensions of affluence/disadvantage to comprise their index. 
‘Demographic Profile’,
‘Social Class Composition’
‘Labour Market Situation’

13. “Extremely disadvantaged”
Farranferris,
Knocknaheeny,
Fair Hill B
9% of National ED rating

14. HBCT Set up in 2007 Funding for 1 additional Consultant
CD and Heads of Discipline examined need within North Lee MHS

15. North Lee MHS
Majority (>50%) of ALL admissions to Acute Unit were from City North Sectors

16. HBCT 1 Consultant Psychiatrist 1 Registrar 2 CMHN 1 social worker
0.6 Occupational Therapist
1 Psychologist
Clerical Support

17. Evolution of HBCT...April 2009
1 Consultant Psychiatrist
1 Registrar
2 CMHN
0.6 social worker
0.6 Occupational Therapist
Clerical Support

18. My Vision... Optimising Physical &Psychological Health
Intensive Case Management
Evidence Based Practice
Health Economics SB
Audit
Ethics
Autonomy
Beneficence
Non-Maleficence
Justice
Research

19. Inclusion Criteria
The crisis team (HBCT) aim to treat individuals in the community, where appropriate, for approximately 4 weeks. We are targeting adults with severe mental illness, who require urgent assessment.
This includes:
Those in acute psychosocial crisis
Those with acute psychiatric conditions in need of urgent psychiatric attention
And those with long term, severe psychiatric problems who experience either of the first two problems.

20. Exclusion Criteria risk of violence in home &/ or to staff
primary diagnosis of organic brain damage and dementia
medical illness which may require medical assessment
primary diagnosis of active substance misuse.
severe personality disorder

21. HBCT Working Hours
Mon-Fri.
Mon-Thurs 9am-5pm.
Fri 9am-4pm.

22. Referrals
Referrals must be made by healthcare professionals using the referral form.
An urgent referral must be followed up by a phone call to the team in order to discuss the case.
The client must be aware of the referral and agreeable to assessment in their home.

23. Assessments Initial assessment by 2 team members. HBCT Proforma HONOS
MADRAS
Risk Assessement.

24. Acceptance/Non Acceptance Procedure
Referrer notified immediately via fax.
Full detailed assessment to referrer within 2 working days.

25. Clients working with HBCT
Keyworker
Initial daily reviews
Weekly review of Collaborative Care Plan.

26. Audit of Home Based Crisis Team (HBCT)-Cork City North, Activity over a 6 month period

27. Aims of Audit... To review Practices within HBCT Accountibility
Service Development

28. Methods conducted over a six month period
from 1/10/2009 to 31/03/2010.
Data was analyse using SPSS version 14 and graphs compiled using Minitab Graphics.

29. Results

30. Referrals
158 referrals.

42. GP Perspectives on the Home Based Crisis Team. City North Sectors, Cork.

43. GP Satisfaction with HBCT
92% of GPs were satisfied with the team re
management of patients
as suitable alternative to admission,
time from referral to assessment,
satisfaction with feedback and correspondence from the team

44. GP’s.....
100% of GPs identified they would refer again

45. Future Plans

46. Future Plans Further strategy Meeting with CNE
Further Meeting Primary Care Teams
Meeting with Liaison Psychiatry

47. Future Plans Study ongoing re MDT input to HBCT case-load.
Continued CSQ-8 Collection
Assessment of family/carer views
Collection of emergency presentations/admissions to acute unit.

48. “Successful implementation of the
CRHT teams as alternatives to hospital admission requires resources for home treatment out of hours, effective systems working among local services, stronger local understanding and advocacy of the
teams’ role”
Onyett 2008

49. The Team! Mairead Murphy (CMHN) Martina Cullinane (CMHN)
Aisling Hassett (CMHN)
Damien Fleming (SW)
Valerie Morrison (OT)
Freda Wynne (Psychologist in Clinical Training)
Geraldine Kenny, Martina Carroll (Clerical support)
Dr. Deirdre Muller-Neff (Registrar)
Dr. Sinead O’Brien