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The impact of a new psychiatric intensive care unit on the rest of an in-patient psychiatric service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2007

Steve Brown  and
Martin Langrish
Steve Brown*
Affiliation:
Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton, UK
Martin Langrish
Affiliation:
Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton, UK
*
Correspondence to: Steve Brown, Canon House, 6 Canon Street, Shirley, Southampton, SO15 5PQ, UK. Tel: 02380 878051; E-mail: steve.brown@hantspt-sw.nhs.uk
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Abstract

Aims: To measure how the opening of a new PICU affected the clinical activity of the local acute in-patient psychiatric wards.

Method: Retrospective analysis of Trust statistical reports.

Results: The opening of a PICU was associated with small and temporary reductions in disturbed behaviour and detained patient numbers on the acute wards.

Conclusions: Opening a PICU appeared to have little long term effect on the clinical activity of the other hospital wards. It is likely that any effects of the PICU were obscured by the many other factors impacting on acute ward activity.

Keywords

psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU)service development
Type
Brief Report
Information
Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , December 2006 , pp. 126 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © NAPICU 2007

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