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Faculty reports

• Alternatives to emergency departments for mental health assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic 
• Liaison psychiatry and the management of long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms
• Framework for routine outcome measurement in Liaison psychiatry - superseded by CR241
• Integrated care for long-term physical health conditions and medically unexplained symptoms: a survey of Liaison psychiatry services

College reports 

• Job planning for psychiatrists (CR245, October 2026)
• Liaison psychiatry for every acute hospital: Integrated mental and physical healthcare
• Managing Deliberate Self-Harm in Young People
• Assessment Following Self-harm in Adults
• Framework for routine outcome measurement in liaison psychiatry (FROM-LP II)  (CR241, June 2024)

Consensus statements

• Side by Side: a UK-wide consensus statement on working together to help patients with mental health needs in acute hospitals

Position statements

• The role of liaison psychiatry in integrated physical and mental healthcare
• Provision of liaison psychiatry services across the lifespan
• Position statement on the involvement of anaesthetists in restraint teams

Quality improvement

• Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN).

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Commissioning and services

• Centre for Mental Health: liaison psychiatry
• IAPT: Long Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• Five Year Forward View
• King's Fund: Place-based systems of care
• NHS England: Improving the physical health of adults with severe mental illness.

Reports

Treat as One Bridging the gap between mental and physical healthcare in general hospitals.  A report published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (2017)

See our award-winning mental health information on:

• Physical illness
• Liaison psychiatry services
• Medically-unexplained symptoms.

Advice for Health Care Workers and patients

• MHPSS COVID-19 Briefing
• WHO Mental Health COVID-19 Guidance

Advice for Patients

• COVID-19 Anxiety Leaflet – Oncology Service
• COVID-19 Anxiety - Australian
• COVID-19 Anxiety - European
• Resilience through the pandemic
• COVID-19 Mental Health Summary Advice

Clinicians Tools for Assessment and Treatment of Patients

MH Triage and Assessment Frameworks

• Mental Health Triage
• Mood-Anxiety Assessment
• Suicide Risk Assessment
• Mental Health Screening Tool

Prescribing Guidance

• Evidence for PTSD Prescribing
• PTSD Prescribing Algorithm
• BMJ Rapid Response: Potential Risk of COVID-19 in Clozapine Treated Patients. Re: COVID-19: outbreak could last until spring 2021 and see 7.9 million hospitalised in the UK

Delirium and COVID-19

• Delirium COVID- 19 Drug Interactions
• RNOH Delirium during COVID-19
• Management tips for Suspected Delirium in patients with COVID-19

West London NHS has created a series of videos, hosted on YouTube, for emergency staff. 

• Mental health awareness e-training for emergency staff - Delirium in dementia
• Mental health awareness e-training for emergency staff - Psychosis
• Mental health awareness e-training for emergency staff - Anxiety in respiratory illness