Clinical Needs Sample Clauses

Clinical Needs. 3.3.1 Current Scottish Government policy for the design and development of services to care for the Mental Health of Children and Young people was published in the National Framework3 in 2005. This National Framework defined the levels of care and are summarised in Figure 1 below: Figure 1: Description of CAMHS service tiers based on levels of need Tertiary level services such as inpatient units, highly specialised outpatient teams and day units, Assessment and treatment is the core function. Involves - Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Clinical Child Psychologists, Nurse (community and in/pts) Child Psychotherapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Speech & language therapists, Art, music & Drama therapists, Social Workers, Dietician, Voluntary Agencies. A specialised service for more severe, complex or persistent mental health problems up to a certain level of need Assessment and treatment is the core function. Involves - Child and adolescent psychiatrists, Clinical Child Psychologists Nurse (community and inpatients) Child psychotherapists Occupational therapists, Speech & language therapists, Dieticians, Art, music & drama therapists, Social workers and Voluntary agencies. 3 (2005) “The Mental Health of Children and Young People: A Framework for Promotion, Prevention and Care” Oct, 2005, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, Astron B43221 10/05 3.3.2 The clinical case load will address the needs of young people aged between 12 & 18 years, resident in the participating North of Scotland NHS Board areas and requiring treatment for severe and complex mental health disorders. The level of need would be described as ‘Tier 4’. 3.3.3 Patients are likely to have high levels of symptoms, disabilities and difficulties in management associated with psychiatric diagnosis, e.g. psychoses, severe mood disorder, eating disorder, obsessive disorder or serious self harm. 3.3.4 The National Framework and subsequent Government Policy documents have identified that there is a need for further investigation within CAMHS and have highlighted that, in particular, there will need to be an increase in the number of inpatient places for young people, planned on a regional basis. 3.3.5 During the development of this Initial Agreement, NoS NHS Boards have reviewed the need for local and specialist CAMHS. A number of deficiencies in local NHS Board services (Tiers 1-3) have been identified, some of which will be addressed by the proposed regional network. Such deficiencies, ...

Clinical Needs