Core Clinical Standards

The Trust provides a range of services to patients with varying levels of need. Care should be personalised and planned around the needs of the individual patient in accordance with the Core Clinical Standards.

The Core Clinical Standards policy outlines guidance on Core Clinical Standards which must be implemented by all secondary inpatient and Community Mental Health and learning disability services.

It aims to establish a level of care for all patients accessing services across the Trust based on comprehensive assessment of need, good co-ordination of care, high-quality person-centred collaborative care planning and delivery, and effective crisis management. You can access the Core Clinical Standards here:

Website: www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-clinically-led-review-of-standards/

All patients must have an assigned key worker as soon as possible when taken on for care and treatment, if there is a delay in assigning a key worker the patient must be given a named person for contact until the key worker has been identified.

The key worker would normally be the person providing most direct care and development of the care plan with patient.