{"id":114616,"date":"2025-05-19T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/114616\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:05:09","slug":"northwick-park-introduces-dedicated-mental-health-team-amid-rising-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/114616\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwick Park introduces dedicated mental health team amid rising demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new team dedicated to supporting patients with mental health needs has been launched at Northwick Park Hospital, aiming to ease pressure on NHS staff and improve patient care.<\/p>\n<p>The Enhanced Observations Team, which also operates at <a href=\"https:\/\/harrowonline.org\/tag\/Ealing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ealing<\/a> Hospital, includes mental health nurses and healthcare assistants who respond to referrals made from any part of the hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was introduced following a rise in the number of patients needing both mental and physical health support during their hospital stay.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Okey, Senior Mental Health Nurse, said: \u201cThe majority of nurses are trained to look after a patient\u2019s physical, not mental, well-being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can take up a lot of their time if an individual needs a lot of attention which is where we come in, assess the patient and make a recommendation and provided enhanced observation and support for the patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe train our healthcare assistants to manage the less complex cases while more complex cases are managed by experienced mental health nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff can make referrals to the Enhanced Observations Team via email using a referral template that has been shared with all wards. The team is also available to support hospital staff who may need additional help managing patients\u2019 mental health needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harrowonline.org\/tag\/northwick-Park-Hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northwick Park Hospital<\/a> is run by London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH), which provides hospital and community services to residents in Harrow, Brent and Ealing.<\/p>\n<p>Never miss another news story, subscribe to Harrow Online for FREE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new team dedicated to supporting patients with mental health needs has been launched at Northwick Park Hospital,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[51794,16940,105,218,12,16941,51795,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-114616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ealing","9":"tag-harrow-news","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-news-in-harrow","14":"tag-northwick-park-hospital","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114535119111540926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}