SAFER-YMH care bundle for CAMHS Crisis and Liaison services
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An Investigation into the Acceptability of the Safer-YMH Care Bundle for Transitions out of CAMHS Crisis and Liaison Services
IRAS ID
331895
Contact name
Josephine Holland
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Of Nottingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
000, 000
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 30 days
Research summary
When a young person requires support from specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) this will often involve different teams at different times, with the young person moving from one team to another. CAMHS Crisis and Liaison teams are designed to give short term, intensive, support to young people experiencing mental health crisis and aim to reduce the need for hospital admission. However, when the time comes to be discharged by these teams it can be a point of increased risk and vulnerability, where young people and their families can lack support and information about ongoing care. Improvement of movements between teams and services will help care experiences for young people, families, and professionals.
The NHS Improvement SAFER MH bundle was developed for adults to improve discharge from hospital and the move to community services. This has been adapted for use in young people being discharged from mental health admissions by a team at the University of Manchester into the SAFER-YMH care bundle. We will investigate the acceptability and necessary adaptations required for the use of the SAFER-YMH care bundle to facilitate transitions out of CAMHS Crisis and Liaison teams.
A researcher will present the SAFER YMH bundle to groups of people e.g. young people, clinicians. For each group we will present the SAFER-YMH bundle and ask them whether they think this would be an acceptable thing to apply in practice by the CAMHS Crisis and Liaison teams and whether they feel it needs to be adapted in any way before introducing it in practice. We record these groups and we will adapt the care bundle based upon what the feedback was. At the end we will have a version of the bundle which will be presented to service leads and commissioners for further feedback.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/EM/0274
Date of REC Opinion
21 Dec 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion