By Local Democracy Reporter
Steve Shaw
THURROCK Council is looking to transform adult mental health services after it was revealed that the majority of service users have not received the treatment they expected.
A report from Thurrock Council states that 88 per cent of service users felt unsupported in their mental health issue and describes existing services as “fragmented”.
To tackle this, the council has been working with Thurrock’s clinical commissioning group and the NHS to transform how services are delivered.
Their priorities include improving access to treatment by creating a new community crisis centre. It will be open 24 hours a day and enable people to access specialist care by calling 111.
Funding for the project is expected to be approved in the coming months and it will go into operation at the end of the year.
A new treatment model will also be introduced for common disorders like depression, anxiety and panic disorders.
The council report states: “There is an unacceptable level of variation in the clinical management of common mental health disorders between different GP surgeries, with many surgeries failing to review newly diagnosed residents with depression in a timely manner.
“The clinical commissioning group’s primary care development team in conjunction with Healthcare Public Health staff need to address this variation and improve performance.”
It goes on to outline a series of changes including encouraging GPs to refer patients with common disorders to Public Health commissioned activisty programmes, due to physical activity havign a positive effect on mental health.
There will also be efforts to encompass mental health treatment with treatment for long term physical health conditions because of a proven link between the two.
Key to this will be the four new medical centres that are planned for the borough. The centres, which will replace Orsett Hospital, will give the council the opportunity to “integrate mental health treatment provision with physical long term condition services”.
“A report from Thurrock Council states that 88 per cent of service users felt unsupported in their mental health issue and describes existing services as “fragmented”.
No thats not fragmented
thats deliberate. and catastrophic.
They must be getting a kick back from Private healthcare lobbyists.
I also could not access the services when I was suicidal they simplly wrote a letter to my GP saying they have read my old records and feel I don’t need to be seen and told the GP to just put me on some medication. They didnt even seen me, or if had read my notes, which I took it they did they would know that no medication has worked in the last 20 years.
being suicidal and going on medication which takes 4 weeks to even kick in might be dangerous not being seen.
But the establishment knows best so we should just follow what they say as they know best.
88% of people say not.
“creating a new community crisis centre.”
I welcome this.
“Funding for the project is expected to be approved in the coming months”
What like the Four health hubs now in doubt or the C2C Crossing now in doubt due to cuts at a later date.
“four new medical centres”
No guarantee they will happen has been raised before as a doubt. Also question over the same level of services as Orsett hospital they replaced has also been in doubt.
The truth is they the elite 1% establishment are hell Bent on destroying the very idea and concept of the NHS and they are very good in there job of doing it.
My role in life is now destroying the elite 1% establishment and I’ve learned from the very best haven’t I.
That was a declaration of war by the way. 🙂
Wow! A report that says what I’ve been saying for sodding years. It would be nice if the Tories actually funded the mental health service properly considering all they’ve done to increase the demand for it since 2010. Although it’s quite true to say that the mental health service has been underfunded for decades as both Tory and Labour governments haven’t given a crap about the service until it became a headline grabber.