Barnet Primary Care Trust

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Barnet Primary Care Trust

• CAMHS Strategy
• Christine Cornwall
• Commissioner and Service Development Manager

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Strategic Aims 2009-13

• To achieve better outcomes for children and young
  people by ensuring the services we commission
  meet the standards of delivery set in Every
  Child Matters and National Service Framework for
  Children.
• Work towards Outcome Based Commissioning
  Framework as World Class Commissioners
• To maintain Comprehensive CAMH services and make
  improvements to existing services
• To deliver services based on an assessment of
  Local Need that will assist in building the
  resilience and supporting the independence of the
  children and young people they are serving
• To commission services inline with Barnet
  Children and Young People Strategic Partnership
  Board Commissioning standards

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A review of successes2004-07/08

• Achievement of Comprehensive CAMHS
• Delivery of care to children with learning
  disabilities and mental health needs through SCAN
  
• Tier 4 Services (New Beginnings and Northgate)
• Development within Tier 2 services

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Developments in 2008/09

• Forensic Adolescent Assessment Service
• Transitions to adult mental health services for
  children with Complex Needs
• Barnet Single Point of Referral Entry (SPORE)
• Peri-natal Mental Health project

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Four Tiers

• Universal servicesTier 1A primary level of
  emotional and behavioural advice, intervention
  and support, and early identification of mental
  health problems, delivered by GPs, Health
  Visitors, School Nurses, Social Services,
  Teachers, Youth Offending Teams, Connextions,
  Voluntary agencies, etc.
• Targeted ServicesTier 2A service provided by
  specialist individual professionals, including
  psychologists, paediatricians, psychiatrists,
  psychotherapists, community nurses and other
  therapists (working alongside workers in Tier 1)
  and offering training, consultation, outreach
  and/or assessment.
• Specialist ServicesTier 3A specialised
  multi-disciplinary service for more severe,
  complex or persistent disorders. This involves
  the same professionals as in Tier 2, providing
  assessment, treatment and referral to Tier 4 as
  well as participating in research and development
  projects.
• Tier 4Essential Tertiary services such as day
  units, highly specialised outpatient teams and
  in-patient units, who service a wider
  geographical area.

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Areas of Investment for 2008/9

• Barnet Adolescent Service
• Expansion of the Secondary Project
• SCAN
• Paediatric Liaison

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