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National In-patient Standards for PICU

The National Standards for In-patient PICU and Low Secure Services were launched at the Department of Health by Jacqui Smith,MP, Minister for Health on Tuesday, April 30th 2002. The work undertaken by the Practice Development Network facilitated by NAPICU and NELMET played an important part in the development of the standards for Psychiatric Intensive Care. The standards are minimum standards which can be used to benchmark the quality of services.

 
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  NIMHE

National Minimum Standards for General Adult Services in PICU's and Low Secure Environments - Policy Implementation Guidance

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  NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement

Focus on: psychiatric intensive care units

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  Sainsburys Centre for Mental Health

Defining a Good Mental Health Service : A Discussion Paper

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The Psychiatric Intensive Care Advisory Service can help Trusts, companies and individual units to improve the standard of care delivered within PICUs and Low Secure environments To find out more and about the PICU Accreditation scheme Click Here

 

Have you completed a practice development exercise recently, why not share that information with others via the NAPICU Bulletin and Website. Please forward submissions to the NAPICU Bulletin (select Bulletin)

 

 

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