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NHS Forth Valley

Forth Valley Psychiatric Emergency Plan

NHS Forth Valley mental health emergencies
NHS Forth Valley

Overview, key principles and definition of psychiatric emergency

Place of safety

Forth Valley mental health services

Accessing a mental health officer (MHO)

Patients already receiving psychiatric care in the community

Detention: EDC or STDC?

Assessment of risk and staff safety

Responsibility for detention from the community

GP attending psychiatric emergency visual pathway

AMP attending a patient visual pathway

Responsibility for dependents, pets etc.

Emergency medical treatment

Arranging transport to hospital

Transportation to hospital visual pathway

Escalation of transport to hospital visual pathway

Patient handover in non-mental health setting FVRH

Detention papers

Detention paperwork visual pathway

Use of reasonable force

Role of the consultant psychiatrist

Role of the police

Emergency departments

Patients who wish to leave or abscond from the general hospital

Patients who wish to leave or abscond from the general hospital visual pathway

Police initiated PEP

Court initiated PEP

Detention from prison setting

Review following admission to hospital

Perinatal patients

Child and adolescent patients (under 18years)

Learning disability patients

Transfers to higher levels of security

Role of hospital managers

Glossary and abbreviations

Principles of the act