Mental Health Terms used in the NHS
Accident and Emergency (A&E) - Answer-A walk-in centre at hospitals for when urgent or immediate treatment is necessary.
Acute - Answer-An acute illness is one that develops suddenly. Acute conditions may or may not be severe and they usually last for a sho...
Mental Health Terms used in the NHS
Accident and Emergency (A&E) - Answer-A walk-in centre at hospitals for when
urgent or immediate treatment is necessary.
Acute - Answer-An acute illness is one that develops suddenly. Acute conditions
may or may not be severe and they usually last for a short amount of time.
Admission beds - Answer-NHS beds that are available for people in a crisis, when
care cannot be provided in their own home.
Advocate - Answer-An advocate is someone who helps to support a service user or
carer through their contact with health services.
Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) - Answer-A range of health professionals that
includes physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, art therapists, and
speech and language therapists.
Anti-psychotic medication - Answer-Medication used to treat psychosis. There are
several different types of anti-psychotic medication.
Assertive outreach - Answer-Assertive outreach refers to a way of delivering
treatment. An Assertive Outreach Team actively take their service to people instead
of people coming to the team. Care and support may be offered in the service user's
home or in some other community setting. Care and support is offered at times
suited to the service user rather than times suited to the team's convenience.
Assessment - Answer-When someone is unwell, health care professionals meet with
the person to talk to them and find out more about their symptoms so they can make
a diagnosis and plan treatments. This is called an assessment. Family members
should be involved in assessments, unless the person who is unwell says he or she
does not want that.
Caldicott guardian - Answer-The person within a Trust who has responsibility for
policies on safeguarding the confidentiality of patient information.
Care pathways - Answer-This is the route someone who is unwell follows through
health services. The path starts when someone first contacts health services -
through their GP or an accident and emergency department, for example. The path
continues through diagnosis, treatment, and care.
Care plan - Answer-Mental health professionals draw up a care plan with someone
when they first start offering them support, after they have assessed what someone's
needs are and what is the best package of help they can offer. People should be
given a copy of their care plan and it should be reviewed regularly. Service users,
and their families and carers, can be involved in the discussion of what the right care
plan is.
, Care Programme Approach (CPA) - Answer-A way of assessing the health and
social care needs of people with mental health problems, and coming up with a care
plan that ensures people get the full help and support they need.
Carer - Answer-A friend or relative who voluntarily looks after someone who is ill,
disabled, vulnerable, or frail. Carers can provide care part-time or full-time.
Challenging behaviour - Answer-Behaviour that puts the safety of the person or other
people at risk, or that has a significant impact on the person's or other people's
quality of life.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - Answer-CAMHS provide
individual and family work helping children and young people under the age of 18
who experience emotional difficulties or mental health problems
Chronic condition - Answer-A condition that develops slowly and/or lasts a long time.
Client - Answer-Someone who uses health services. Some people use the terms
patient or service user instead.
Clinical governance - Answer-A system of steps and procedures through which NHS
organisations are accountable for improving quality and safeguarding high standards
to ensure that patients receive the highest possible quality of care
Clinician - Answer-A health professional who is directly involved in the care and
treatment of people. Examples include nurses, doctors, and therapists.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - Answer-This is a way of helping people to
cope with stress and emotional difficulties by encouraging them to make the
connections between how we think, how we feel, and how we behave.
Commissioning - Answer-The process by which commissioners decide which
services to purchase for the local community and which provider to purchase them
from. Most mental health services are commissioned by Primary Care Trusts.
Community care - Answer-Care and support provided outside of a hospital.
Crisis - Answer-A mental health crisis is a sudden and intense period of severe
mental distress.
Day care - Answer-Communal care that is usually provided away from a service
user's place of residence with carers present.
Depot injections - Answer-Long acting medication often used where people are
unable or unwilling to take tablets regularly.
Dual diagnosis - Answer-When two or more problems or disorders affect a person at
the same time.
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