Opening up while locking down: how an Irish independent sector mental health service is responding to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Authors
Fearon, Paul
Issue Date
2020-05-27
Type
Journal Article
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Review
Language
en
Keywords
COVID-19 , mental health service , safety , strategy
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Abstract
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.
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Citation
Fearon P. (2020). Opening up while locking down: how an Irish independent sector mental health service is responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Irish journal of psychological medicine, 37(3), 172–177. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.68
Publisher
License
Journal
Irish journal of psychological medicine
Volume
37
Issue
3
PubMed ID
ISSN
2051-6967