Mental Health Care Plan Management

Mental health care plan management that facilitates a move out of chronic care and back into the community where appropriate

Care plan management for mental health service providers that firmly integrates the need for re-ablement, independence and self-determination to ensure that service users do not experience unnecessary deprivation of liberty.

Mental health care planning must integrate a totally comprehensive approach to risk assessment. The rights of service users to live fulfilling, independent and productive lives is important however any risks associated with helping them achieve these objectives must be fully understood and mitigated.

How can QCS help?

QCS prioritises the process of care plan management for staff designing care plans. It provides the capability to enable interventions resulting from professional assessment to be integrated within the care plan, while involving the service user in the entire process.

Care planning with QCS care plan management solution puts expertly written policies and procedures online and in print at the disposal of staff that are tasked with designing care plans for mental health service users. This respects the rights of service users while ensuring comprehensive risk assessment.

QCS mental health care plan management planning pack is a robust source of information and provides all the required data recording formats. It allows investigations to be conducted and provides a strong substantiation for replying to legal challenges.

Key documents for managing care planning for mental health include:

• Care planning policy and procedure
• Care plan formats

Selecting QCS for mental health care planning ensures that key considerations are not missed when designing care plans including self-medication, annual health checks, sexual health, health promotion; and legal and welfare system factors such as disability and benefits rights and court of protection or power of attorney.