Category: Preventing Calocane and the next one
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Assertive outreach II (the purpose of AO)
What’s the purpose of Assertive Outreach? Put Calocane aside for now (and Clunis, Addo, Salvador and all the other worst cases) and imagine these groups instead. AO is for patients and not-yet patients who – a) don’t want to work with mhs, don’t want to risk being sectioned because last time it cost them weeks…
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Assertive outreach III
This is the kind of Assertive Outreach that could have prevented Calocane (and the next one). Well-staffed and well-trained teams of community nurses and HCAs who are legally empowered (more on this later) to insist, impolitely and forcibly when necessary, that every patient who disengages, DNAs appointments, refuses their tablets and/or depots and refuses community…
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Calocane. What could and should have been done differently?
Introduction What could and should have been done differently? (Specifically to prevent Calocane) I’ll start with a non-exhaustive list. And spend one or more posts exploring each. 1. Assertive outreach. 2. Refocus priorities onto – a) Our first and foremost duty is to treat. b) and then to focus on relapse prevention, public…