Archive for the “Hospital staff” category
Ward 18 Priestley unit (Kirklees)
Ward 18 is a 23 bedded, mixed sex ward for the assessment and treatment of working age adults predominantly from the South Kirklees and Calderdale areas, though regularly accepts admissions from the whole South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. The ward …
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Treatment team
The North Kirklees treatment team provides treatment clinics for patients taking the drugs clozapine, lithium, and long-acting antipsychotics. The clozapine clinic operates on Mondays. Patients have a sample of blood taken which is then tested to see if they are able to continue with their …
Community NHS supportive care at home
The Community NHS Supportive Care at Home Team are part of the Specialist Community Palliative Care Service within the Trust. The service provides practical, emotional and physical support to patients and carers who are in receipt of or meet continuing health care FastTrack funding criteria. …
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Heart failure specialist nurse service
Heart failure simply means that the heart is not pumping as well as it should to meet the body’s needs, due to a weakened heart muscle. It does not mean that the heart has stopped or that you have had a heart attack. On referral …
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Community therapies team (North Kirklees)
The North Kirklees community therapy team accepts referrals for assessment, interventions and case management from both Trust services and other organisations. The service is for people who do not have a diagnosis of psychotic illness, but have (or are likely to have) mental health conditions …
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Community mental health team (CMHT) (Lower Valley)
Lower Valley community mental health team provides assessment, support and care for people with complex mental health needs. These include moderate to severe depression, moderate to severe anxiety, and mood disorders including bipolar disorder, psychotic illnesses and personality disorders. Psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, …
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Community mental health team older people’s service (East and West) (Calderdale)
The community mental health teams for older people (East and West) provide assessment, treatment, care planning and interventions for service users, who are primarily over the age of 65 and have a range of mental health problems. The aim is to support the individual, and …
Intensive home based treatment team (Wakefield)
The intensive home based treatment team provides assessment and treatment to people aged 18 to 65 who are experiencing the onset of, or relapse of severe mental distress. Their condition involves a breakdown in normal coping mechanisms or a change in personal circumstances which necessitates …
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Melton suite psychiatric intensive care unit (Barnsley)
Melton suite is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) which provides intensive nursing care for both male and female patients. The 6 bedded unit supports service users, who are in an acute phase of mental illness and are usually detained under the Mental Health Act. …
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Briarfields- (treatment clinic, Fieldhead)
Briarfields provides electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), Clozapine monitoring (a medicine which is used in treating schizophrenia), physical health monitoring and electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring services. Our services are provided to inpatients and outpatients at Fieldhead in Wakefield and the surrounding areas. We provide a high-quality service which …
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