Opening up while locking down: how an Irish independent sector mental health service is responding to the COVID-19 crisis
| Autor: | Paul Fearon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Hospitals Psychiatric Mental Health Services Pneumonia Viral General medical services Perspective Piece Betacoronavirus 03 medical and health sciences Face-to-face 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Irish Pandemic Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Set (psychology) Pandemics Personal Protective Equipment Personal protective equipment Applied Psychology Service (business) SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Mental Disorders mental health service COVID-19 Public relations Mental health language.human_language 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Quarantine language strategy Coronavirus Infections business Ireland |
| Zdroj: | Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine |
| ISSN: | 2051-6967 0790-9667 |
| Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic poses a particular set of challenges for health services. Some of these are common across all services (e.g. strategies to minimise infections; timely testing for patients and staff; and sourcing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)) and some are specific to mental health services (e.g. how to access general medical services quickly; how to safely deliver a service that traditionally depends on intensive face to face contact; how to isolate someone who does not wish to do so; and how to source sufficient PPE in the face of competing demands for such equipment). This paper describes how St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) chose to address this unfolding and ever-changing crisis, how it developed its strategy early based on a clear set of objectives and how it adapted (and continues to adapt) to the constantly evolving COVID-19 landscape. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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