As you know, BHRUT already provides Advice and Guidance services across a number of specialties (including Cardiology, Dermatology and Respiratory).
We have now agreed with NELFT that A&G services should be extended to mental health services as part of our work as a local partnership to transform community mental health services.
The NELFT Memory Service will host an A&G pilot which will run from now until January 2020. We will then review the pilot and plan to then extend the A&G service across older adults’ mental health services and adult mental health services.
Key points to note about the pilot are:
Advice & Guidance (A&G) services are intended to help ensure patients are seen and treated in the right place, at the right time as quickly as possible. They are intended to help GPs make a better and more informed decision on the most appropriate course of action for their patients.
If you would like to know about this pilot, please contact Kevin Dowling, primary care mental health commissioning manager by email kevin.dowling3@nhs.net or by telephone 020 3182 3149.
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