Mental illness services
Partnerships in Care (PiC) accepts referrals of patients with
a variety of complex mental health needs, such as mental illness and personality
disorder. Referrals originate from the NHS, prisons and other independent sector
providers nationwide. At PiC, we recognise that men and women often require gender-specific
specialist services.
Treatment programmes
Once referred, PiC adopts a multidisciplinary team approach
to the care of our patients. This team typically consists of a consultant psychiatrist
alongside nurses, social workers, psychologists and occupational therapists.
Each team has the benefit of being able to access the latest psychiatric treatment.
When used alongside treatments such as psychological psychotherapies, occupational
therapy and creative therapies they provide a holistic approach to patient treatment.
Therapies include:
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- psychodynamic therapies
- dialectal behavioural therapy (DBT)
- offender-focused work
- psycho-education
- pharmacological treatments
When admitted to our care each patient receives a detailed psychiatric evaluation,
which may include a full neuropsychological, psychosocial and functional assessment.
Reviews
To ensure consistent, focused, individualised care, each patient
is reviewed regularly using an enhanced Care Programme Approach (CPA). We encourage
referring clinical teams, patients and advocates to attend these meetings, where
we jointly review and plan each person's care.
Additional support
In addition, most of our facilities have full-time teaching
personnel who offer a broad range of services - everything from assistance with
basic educational deficits, to supporting individuals in academic and vocational
training programmes.
Care pathways
Our network of high-quality hospitals allows us to offer pathways
of care for patients. Patients who are normally admitted initially to medium-secure
or low-secure conditions move on to lesser secure or step-down services when they
are ready.
