Recurring concern

Unreliable multidisciplinary and interagency care planning for mental-health relapse

First to latest report 1 Jul 2019 — 25 Feb 2022

Reports that mention this concern
2
Times this concern has been raised
2
Stated actions linked to this concern
1

What this concern includes

Includes failures in multidisciplinary or interagency mental-health care-planning arrangements that are specifically intended to identify relapse indicators, agree preventive or responsive actions, assign responsibilities, share relevant risk information and coordinate follow-up, including joint plans and pre-discharge multidisciplinary discussions.

What is not included
  • Excludes generic interagency communication, care coordination or role-clarity failures where mental-health relapse planning is not the shared unsafe condition.
  • Excludes general care-planning failures unrelated to mental-health relapse indicators or relapse prevention.
  • Excludes failures limited to discharge-letter content, family communication or medication management unless they directly constitute the coordinated relapse-planning process.
  • Excludes failures to implement an otherwise complete relapse plan where the planning process itself was reliable.
  • Excludes the existing broader concerns concerning generic multidisciplinary meetings, mental-health care coordination or interagency information sharing when no specific relapse-planning condition is identified.

Reports and published responses 2 reports

See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response

  1. Essex

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    Stephanie Moyce · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Stephanie Moyce, who had a history of mental health issues and repeated suicide attempts, took her own life on 30 July 2021 and was discovered by her partner. The report identified concerns about unclear responsibility for care and oversight after psychotherapy discharge, inadequate discharge planning and safety-netting, the lack of routine multidisciplinary discussion, and insufficient involvement of her carer in Section 117 after-care reviews.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to routinely discuss psychotherapy patients in locality multidisciplinary team meetings before discharge to share progress, vulnerability and relapse-risk information

    Wider context from the report

    “3. Evidence confirmed that patients under psychotherapy are not presently routinely discussed in the locality multi-disciplinary team meetings prior to their discharge leading to a missed opportunity: (a) to share information about the specific progress, vulnerabilities and risks of relapse of the patient (and measures to mitigate or deal with the same); as well as (b) to organise and follow up the overall discharge planning. ”

    Source location

    Stephanie Moyce · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 3 · concerns

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  2. Black Country

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    Mr Peter Lawrence (PL) · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Mr Peter Lawrence, a 48-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia and a history of disengagement from mental health services, was found outside his flat on 8 February 2019 after falling from the balcony and died from traumatic injuries. Concerns included the lack of a joint multi-disciplinary/agency care plan, inconsistent care coordination, and the absence of a coordinated mental health assessment and possible admission when concerns about self-care and disengagement arose.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Lack of a joint multidisciplinary and interagency care plan for responding to relapse indicators

    Wider context from the report

    “2. There was a lack of a joint multi-disciplinary/agency care plan (between Local authority and Mental Health Trust) which could have resulted in delays in a timely response to known relapse indicators. ”

    Source location

    Mr Peter Lawrence (PL) · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 2 · concerns

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    Source evidence

    How this respondent action was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Formulate a joint action plan to improve multidisciplinary and multi-agency care plans and risk assessments for community patients with complex needs.

    Verbatim wording from the response

    “The Trust has in conjunction with Walsall Council formulated a further joint action plan to ensure that policies and procedures relating to multidisciplinary/agency care plans and risk assessments meet the needs of community patients with complex needs and that a multi-agency working approach is reinforced going forward.”

    Source location

    2019-0245-Response-by-Dudley-and-Walsall-Mental-Health-NHS-Trust
    Page 1 · response
    Published 9 September 2019

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