 2004
Mapping
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Welcome to the 2003
CAMH Mapping homepage.
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Welcome to the 2003 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Mapping
website.
This site is designed to support the 2003 Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Service (CAMHS) mapping exercise but it also provides general
information about CAMHS mapping and gives access to the 2002 CAMHS
mapping results.
All information on this page is open but the data collection pages
are accessible only to registered users. Registered users must log
in using their ‘user name’ and password to reach the data
entry start page. There they will find guidance notes to take them
through each stage of data inputting.
CAMHS mapping was developed for the Department of Health to contribute
to the monitoring of the expansion and development of mental health
service provision for children and adolescents. It was set up in 2002
and has become an annual exercise for the collection of data on specialist
CAMH Tier 2 to 4 services (Health Advisory Service, 1995).
Essentially the mapping
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Creates a database of what services are provided |
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To the population of specified areas (PCT and Councils with Social
Services Responsibilities) |
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Described in terms of type, cost, staffing and workload. |
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Internet-based data collection |
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Completion the responsibility of nominated ‘Heads of Service’ |
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National coverage of CAMHS services areas |
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The facility to analyse CAMHS service provision and activity
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The mapping exercise will run from August to the end of December 2003
(see timetable below).
The National CAMH Service Mapping exercise aims to improve mental
health services for children and young people by:
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Assisting the bid for resources at a local and a national level
by providing accurate information on service provision against
population size and deprivation |
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Supporting commissioners and services to manage and develop by
providing detailed information about their individual services |
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Informing and supporting the development and implementation of
the National Service Framework for Children |
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Providing data for NHS plan implementation |
The 1999 Audit Commission report, 'Children in Mind' highlighted the
general weakness of data on child and adolescent mental health service
provision. There is currently no regular collection apart from data
on hospital activity and waiting times.
The importance of child and adolescent mental health services was
recognised in 1999 by the NHS Modernisation Fund and the Mental Health
Grant and in the NHS Plan. However the quantitative and systematic
monitoring of services as they developed was limited by inadequate
statistics.
The profile of CAMHS services has been further heightened by the publication
of the National Service Framework for Children Emerging Findings in
2003. This devotes a chapter to CAMHS and sets out an agenda for the
mapping:
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Commissioning informed by needs assessment and multi-agency
mapping of service availability and use
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Partnership: health, social services, education, youth justice,
voluntary
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Developmentally appropriate care: age ranges and transitional
arrangements
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Evidence based practice, skilled and competent workforce
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Service composition: multi-agency - critical mass
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Access: close to home, appropriate locations
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Users views
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Audit and outcomes
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for 2003 data collection |
This year the mapping process has been streamlined. Wherever possible,
data is collected on-line and responses can be selected from drop-down
menus. Detailed guidance is available and these notes can be printed
off for easy reference. Also questionnaires are provided in pdf format
so that they can be downloaded and printed if access to the internet
is problematic.
| The mapping consists of three questionnaires which
should be completed in sequence. |
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The service questionnaire is short and should be completed by
the nominated Head of Service. It requests information about the
service as a whole, such as, who provides it and its budget. |
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The team questionnaire asks for information about each team that
functions within the overall service. It might be completed by
the Head of Service or by a team manager. Crucially it asks about
the team staffing and this information generates the individual
staff questionnaires for Tier 2 and 3 services. In Tier 4 services,
there is no need for individual staff members to be involved as
the team manager can complete all the information from records. |
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The staffing questionnaire focuses on collecting data about workload.
As, in 2002, most staff were found to work without computerized
case records which they could consult easily about the size and
nature of their caseload, staff are being given simple tally sheets
on which to record information on the clients who they see during
November 2003. |
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| Nominated Heads of Service for the mapping are pivotal
in co-ordinating the exercise. Their responsibilities include ensuring
that: |
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the appropriate data is collected and input onto the web |
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the necessary questionnaires are generated, printed and distributed
and returned |
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the returned data is transferred to the Internet |
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the exercise is checked and signed off. |
The 2002 exercise produced 2 sets of data:
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one which compares all services on a national scale and is accessible
by all and |
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one which contains a more detailed profile of each individual
service and is only accessible by that service using a password
specially assigned to them. |
Summaries of the findings have been published in an Atlas and circulated
widely (Link to download above left).
We would like to take this opportunity for thanking all the CAMHS
staff who collected data last year. We appreciate the amount of time
given to making the mapping exercise a success.
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Dates in the 2003 exercise |
• 1st August – 30th September – identification and
registration of Heads of Service
• 1st October - Data collection by Heads of service to begin
• 3rd to 30th November – period during which staff will
collect data on workload.
• 30th November – All data collection completed
• 1st to 31st December – data inputting and sign off
• January 2004 – Validating period and opportunity for
Heads of services to review and improve information
• March 2004 – Atlas of findings to be published and available
on the mapping website.
The Durham Mapping Team is keen to receive feedback. There will be
an opportunity to respond to a feedback questionnaire at the end of
the exercise but you are welcome to contact the team at any time to
give your views and to share your experiences of the mapping process.
Your comments will be valuable for ensuring the mapping develops in
ways that are useful not only at the national level but also to staff
in localities.
Email to camhs.mapping@durham.ac.uk
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