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King’s Health Partners | Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group Outcomes Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group i King’s Health Partners King’s Health Partners brings together: n three of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts n a world-leading university for health research and education n nearly 4.8 million patient contacts each year n 40,000 staff n nearly 30,000 students n a combined annual turnover of more than £3.7 billion n services provided across central and south London and beyond, including nine mental health and physical healthcare hospitals and many community sites n a comprehensive portfolio of high-quality clinical services with international recognition in cancer, diabetes, mental health, regenerative medicine, transplantation, cardiac and clinical neurosciences n a major trauma centre and two hyper-acute stroke units King’s Health Partners | Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group About King’s Health Partners King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences n increase the value of the care we provide and Centre brings together one of the world’s the outcomes we achieve for our patients top research-led universities, King’s College and service users London, and three of London’s most prestigious and highly-regarded NHS Foundation Trusts – n integrate care across local primary, secondary Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and social care services to make it easier for and South London and Maudsley. people to get the care and support they need Our partnership provides a powerful combination n improve the public health of our local of complex clinical specialties that cover a wide community by tackling inequalities and range of physical and mental health conditions supporting people to live healthy lives and a breadth of research expertise that spans disciplines from medicine and biomedical n bring together our collective strength sciences to the social sciences and humanities. and expertise in a range of specialist areas to deliver world-leading care, research There are three parts to our mission: excellence and education. in research, education and clinical care. We are uniquely structured to deliver our mission To support our mission, we are delivering for excellence. Our 21 Clinical Academic Groups programmes of work to: (CAGs) bring together all the clinical services and staff from the three trusts with the relevant n join up mental and physical healthcare so that academic departments of King’s College London. we treat the whole person, mind and body 01 King’s Health Partners | Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group Foreword At King’s Health Partners, we are committed to The primary purpose of King’s Health Partners improving outcomes for our patients and service is to improve health and wellbeing, locally and users and achieving maximum value for money globally. We must deliver this goal in a challenging in everything we do. We believe that being open economic environment with rising demand for, and transparent about the care and outcomes we and costs of, healthcare. We will only achieve deliver results in a culture of improvement across sustainable health improvement if we strive always our partnership. This is why we are publishing to increase value. We define value in terms of a series of outcomes books that will help patients, outcomes that matter to patients, over the full service users, carers, referring clinicians and cycle of care, divided by the cost of producing Professor John commissioners to make better-informed decisions, those outcomes. By publishing outcomes and our staff to drive up the quality of the care books, we have more information to support us Moxham, Director we provide. The books report key outcomes for measuring the value of the healthcare we provide. of Clinical Strategy treatments provided by our 21 clinical academic groups (CAGs). CAGs form the building blocks of Our goal is to increase the depth and breadth our Academic Health Sciences Centre. By bringing of reporting each year. Books will be updated together our clinical and academic staff across regularly to demonstrate progress against our teaching, training and research, we can use their mission to achieve world-class research, education combined expertise to achieve better outcomes and clinical care. We hope you find these data for our patients and service users. valuable. Please send comments and suggestions to us at [email protected]. Our books are designed for a clinical and lay For more information please visit our website audience and contain a summary of patient at www.kingshealthpartners.org. volumes and measures (e.g. length of stay, Professor John Moxham, Director of Clinical re-admissions, patient experience), clinical outcomes, educational activities, technological Strategy, King’s Health Partners and research innovations and publications. August 2017 They also focus on other important measures, such as staff satisfaction and wellbeing. 02 King’s Health Partners | Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group A word from the CAG Leadership The Mood, Anxiety and Personality (MAP) CAG key partners in the community to promote health brings together many centres of excellence in the and wellbeing. South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and the Institute of Psychiatry, This book showcases our achievements since 2010 Psychology and Neurosciences (IoPPN). Together we and the activities under way to weave education are developing a real partnership between those and training, research and clinical services into working at the forefront of research, education and integrated delivery units whose performance is patient care. By harnessing the ‘virtuous’ synergistic judged against metrics spanning the tripartite interaction between these three domains, we aim agenda. We hope that it shows the quality of the to translate research findings into clinical delivery care we deliver and serves as a useful benchmark without delay, resulting in better mental health for future reports charting our progress. for both our local population and those who are referred to us nationally and internationally. In July 2016, the MAP CAG was merged with specialist services previously within the Increasing numbers of the population have Psychological Medicine CAG. The new CAG is both a physical and a mental health long term named Psychological Medicine and Integrated condition. A key focus for the MAP team over Care CAG and we have been building an the next five years will be to consider how integrated approach over our first year. healthcare delivery might be centred on the whole person, with fully-integrated physical Prof Allan Young, CAG Lead and mental healthcare. The CAG workforce is and Academic Director our greatest asset and they will thrive if valued, Dr Hugh Jones, CAG Lead and Clinical Director supported and educated to consider the whole system, unconstrained by traditional healthcare Mr Steve Davidson, Service Director boundaries. We also need to collaborate with 03 King’s Health Partners | Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group The value of partnership at King’s Health Partners King’s Health Partners aims to create a centre where world-class research, education and clinical Integrating mental practice (the ‘tripartite mission’) are brought together for the benefit of patients. and physical health We want to make sure that the lessons from The mind and body are inseparable, research are used swiftly, effectively and and mental and physical health conditions systematically to achieve better patient outcomes, are often connected. improve public health and join up health and care services for people with physical and The average life expectancy for someone with mental health problems. a long-term mental health illness is much shorter than for someone without, often due in part By working together in this way, integrating to smoking, obesity, diabetes or alcohol misuse. care across different organisations and sectors, Likewise, many people with long-term physical we can not only improve the health of the people health conditions suffer from depression or we care for, but we can also achieve better other mental health conditions. value for money. Despite this, health services separate care into physical and mental and often fail to share patient information. 04 King’s Health Partners | Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group At King’s Health Partners, we are working to n linking IT systems across our partner trusts overcome these barriers by treating the whole so that clinicians have access to a person’s person. We are committed to caring for vulnerable physical and mental care records patients with both physical and mental ill health in an integrated manner with better, faster diagnosis n investing in innovative programmes such and treatment because we know that addressing as IMPARTS (Integrated Mental and Physical mental ill health improves physical health Healthcare: Research, Training and Services) outcomes and vice versa. and 3DfD (3 Dimensions of care for Diabetes) Right across our partnership, we are committed n recognising the importance of employee to joining up and delivering excellent mental mental and physical health and wellbeing. and physical healthcare, research and education so that we treat the whole person, by: Public health n screening all patients with chronic physical diseases for mental health conditions, and Public health is one of our biggest challenges. using the learning from this to improve At the root of much of the ill health in south the care we provide London is a high incidence of smoking, alcohol abuse and obesity. With our health and social n improving our understanding of the physical care partners, we are developing strategies to health needs of people with severe mental tackle these public health priorities. We are also ill health developing plans for a new Institute for Urban Population Health, a collaboration with local n addressing the traditional distinctions partners to bring about transformational change between the mind and body in research to health in local communities.