Provision of Psychiatric Intensive Care to the DPT

The Devon Partnership NHS Trust (“DPT”) is preparing to Tender for the provision of Psychiatric Intensive Care to the Trust There is no PICU available within Devon for patients in need of intensive inpatient nursing. Current arrangements are a combination of commissioned capacity within a range of NHS and independent sector providers commissioned on an “as and when” basis. Psychiatric intensive care is for patients who are in an acutely disturbed phase of a serious mental disorder. There is an associated loss of capacity for self-control, with a corresponding increase in risk, which does not allow their safe, therapeutic management and treatment in a less acute or a less secure menta…

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