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What is the Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network?


 

The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN) works with services to assure and improve the quality of psychiatric liaison in hospital settings, from referral systems, to meeting emergency and routine mental health needs.  It engages staff and service users in a comprehensive process of review, through which good practice and high quality care are recognised and services are supported to identify and address areas for improvement. 

 

Accreditation assures staff, service users and carers, commissioners and regulators of the quality of the service being provided.  It includes core areas common for all teams, but also recognises that some areas may be outside a team’s remit, meaning that a small but well functioning team can still be accredited, or even accredited with excellence, in the domains that it is measured against.

 

 

INFORMATION FOR SERVICE USERS & CARERS

Information on helplines and support, as well as service user and carer surveys

 

 

MEMBER SERVICES

Details of all liaison services currently participating in PLAN, along with their accreditation status.

 

 

JOINING INFORMATION

 

PLAN information leaflet

                   PLAN online joining form

 

 Information leaflet                     Online joining form

 

 

 

PLAN

 

NEWS AND EVENTS


 

February 2012: Peer reviews for cycle 3 will be taking place from May to July - contact us if you'd like to be a peer reviewer.

 

February 2012: West London Mental Health NHS Trust wins funding to expand liaison psychiatry services.

 

January 2012:  The PLAN standards have been revised and the 3rd edition is now available.

 

January 2012:  RAID - Psychiatry Liaison Service, City Hospital, Birmingham - report finds "excellent value for money."

 

April 2011: Press release - Psychiatric liaison services 'highly valued'.

 

April 2011: "PLAN Annual Report, Cycle 1: 2009 - 2010" published.

 

January 2011: PLAN forum presentations (password protected).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why join the network?

Information about the benefits of joining the network

Members' area

Useful information about the review stages and a range of members-only training resources and policies

Resources

The PLAN standards, newsletters, email discussion group and useful publications

Contact us

If you have any questions, or need more information then please contact one of the team.

 

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