MENTAL HEALTH
Professor Philip Sugarman, CEO & Medical Director at St Andrew’s Healthcare, talks about the role of healthcare charities in complementing NHS provision.
WE
have seen in recent months fi- nancial pressures on the NHS
forcing a fundamental rethink over how public healthcare is delivered.
The NHS must provide more and better care within an increasingly constrained budget. Our ageing population and the rising cost of treatments mean that only through innovation toward more efficient, cost-effective and higher quality services, can the NHS meet the needs of our people.
As the charity sector’s largest provider of services to NHS patients, St Andrew’s Healthcare is playing a growing part. Char- ities, with their public benefit commitment and mission, share fundamental values with the NHS, and are already meeting the needs of many patients across the country.
Whilst elective surgery, hospital support services, psychiatric hospital care, care homes and domiciliary care are already subject to significant outsourcing to the private sector, more could be done to har- ness the capacity, expertise and ideas that exist in the voluntary sector.
At St Andrew’s we build success on devel- oping innovative solutions to meet un-met need. We provide high-quality services to very vulnerable people, complementing the good work of fellow NHS providers. However, we also see many missed oppor- tunities, both in individual care and wider care development, to work hand-in-hand with the NHS to provide outstanding, out- come-driven services.
Such missed opportunities prevent patient experience of services being as good as it could be. One key positive about the cur- rent NHS changes is the opportunity to work together in new ways for the best in- terests of patients. After all, we are all try- ing to achieve the same goals, and there is much that the NHS and the charitable sec- tor can teach one another.
As the first Teaching Hospital outside the NHS, St Andrew’s is improving the way it shares knowledge. We have established the St Andrew’s Academic Centre in partner- ship with King’s College London, and we work with NHS deaneries and a number of other universities in the UK, including
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an extensive collaboration with the University of North- ampton. We offer a diverse range of education and training – postgraduate placements for doctors, Mas-
Recent developments at St Andrew’s Healthcare
• A unique new young people’s service within St Andrew’s National Brain Injury Centre in Northampton. The service offers residential rehabilitation and care for 13 years and above who have challenging behaviour or developmental problems as a result of brain injury.
• Women’s low secure mental health services extended to Birmingham and Essex. These complement a diverse range of national specialist women's services developed in Northampton, which provide a holistic, gender sensitive approach designed to enable psychological and social integration, together with the reduction of risk to self and others.
• A new psychiatric intensive care service for men in Northampton – high-quality support in a clinically safe and supportive environment. Individual treatment programmes are developed in recognition of the service user’s unique strengths, needs and risks, with specific emphasis on treating mental illness and starting the recovery process.
• New research into violent behaviour in mental disorder. Collaborations between St Andrew’s academic staff and Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, gathering comprehensive data on the biological and psychological correlates of violence, and developing new ways to measure aggression.
ters modules, nurse and allied profession training, academic masterclasses, and var- ied multidisciplinary courses, conferences and workshops. St Andrew’s research pro- grammes and publications range across mental health, brain injury, learning dis- ability, autism, progressive neurological conditions, nursing and professional prac- tice, healthcare and risk management, and many other topics.
St Andrew’s is committed to sharing best practice and disseminating new ways of delivering public healthcare. Excellence in research and teaching boost the effective- ness of care, but the NHS and the charities need to collaborate more, doing whatever is needed to overcome existing barriers and ensure that all patients receive the best care available and benefit from the very latest thinking.
The financial challenge facing our health system means that we cannot afford missed opportunities if we are to continue to meet the needs of our patients.
Now is the right time for us, as leaders in our field, to take bold and decisive steps to- ward a new era of col- laboration in public healthcare.
Prof Philip Sugarman
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