Essay guidance CP Portfolio Consider and critically analyse an interprofessional service improvement initiative within your final clinical placement area XXXXXXXXXXwords) Service improvement can be...

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Service Improvement – Mental Health Inpatients
Suggested Change in clinical area
Among all the health problem worldwide, the burden of mental health problems is by far the greatest accounting for about 13% mentioned Vigo (2016). People with mental disability lose many productive years of their life in illness and live for many disability-adjusted life years which accumulates as the mental health burden on the country. Every government has to spend a certain percentage of their GDP on the care for mental health patients. The patients have certain kind of mental disorder are treated in many ways like on OPD and IPD basis. Some patients who are diagnosed early and with manageable problems like depression need medications and they get better with time. Other patients with serious mental issues need to be admitted in the hospital or other healthcare facilities. All the medical colleges have a psychiatric ward for the treatment of such patients. There are separate mental health facilities as well that are dedicated for these patients only.
All the healthcare professionals whether medical, nursing or paramedical take the necessary training to handle the mental disorder patients during their clinical placements. This placement helps the students to learn about these patients so that they are able to help the patients when they graduate. The healthcare facilities do their best to take care of these patients and help them get better. The patients are given the medication along with other required care to help them overcome their mental problems. Some patients are able to get better and and get back into the society while some patients are unable to improve. The care provided to these patients have many steps and aspects explained Mc Carthy (2018). During the clinical placement, it was observed that a small change or improvement in the service would really help the patient/service user experience. The change needed is the risk assessment and management policy should be practiced more vigorously.
Improvement in Patient Care
The mental health of the people is affected by three major factors i.e. the quality of life, economy and society. The European Region is facing the greatest public health challenges in the form of mental disorders. The government continuously makes efforts for the care, prevention and treatment of mental health disorders patients says World Health Organization (2017). There are plans made by the healthcare agencies to maintain, improve and restore the mental health of the population. The main mental health problems that are a major burden on the economy of many countries are depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. The economy loss occurs due to the loss of productivity, and care expenditure for the patients which includes infrastructure and care professionals. The treatment for mental disorders is effective and shows considerable reduction in the co-mo
idities with the patients.
Though the government tries to provide care to every mental patient, a large percentage of people with mental health disorders do not receive the treatment. Sometimes, the patients fail to open up to the healthcare professionals or they do not have access to the care. Lund (2018) mentioned that there is an unmet need for quality in healthcare services provided to the mental health disorder patients. He also mentioned that this need can be achieved once the stakeholders do the necessary planning, evaluation and then check for targeted improvement. Once the quality improvement happened, the qualitative and quantitative quality indicators...