Inpatient services include acute assessment and treatment for functional and organic disorders for men and women. There are a small number of longer stay beds for those who cannot be cared for in alternative setting.
Our current service includes:
- Harlaw– this is a functional admissions ward for men only. It has 15 beds and is located in the Royal Edinburgh Building
- Eden – this is a functional admissions ward for women. It has 15 beds and is located in the Royal Edinburgh Building
- Canaan – this is a dementia admissions ward. It has 15 beds and is located in the Royal Edinburgh Building
- Fairmile – this is a dementia admissions ward. It has 15 beds and in located in the Royal Edinburgh Building
- Pentland – this is a hospital based complex clinical care dementia ward. It has 15 beds and is located in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Community Services (Rapid Response Team):
- Assessment and intervention at time of crisis
- Assessment and treatment of complications of dementia
- Assessment and treatment of people with moderate and severe functional disorders and age-related needs
- Bed management of OPMH beds
- Facilitate early discharge
Ways of working in modern Old Age Psychiatry services
Working together with Social Services, Medicine for the Elderly, Accident & Emergency, Primary Care and Voluntary Sector to ensure integrated assessment, treatment and care for people with mental health disorders who very often have social and physical co-morbidities.
To work with locality teams to identify and manage high-risk patients preventing admission to general hospitals and care homes.
Working in a person-centred, needs-led way, not using age as a sole criterion for allocation to services.
Working in a standardised, evidence-based, safe way that provides excellent patient and carer experience. Within OPMH we now have the support of a Band 7 Clinical Academic Nurse to support the development of evidence based care.
We work in a multi-disciplinary team, using the skills of nurses, doctors, psychologists, occupational therapists, voluntary sector, patients and carers, and social care staff to ensure each patient receives a personal coordinated care plan.
