Standard 13: A general physical health assessment and management of the findings are recorded.
Supporting material for standard 13:
Service users with serious mental health problems are at considerably higher risk of physical ill health than the general population.
Services should be provided that address diet, nutrition, exercise, alcohol consumption, drug misuse and sexual health in ways that are responsive to the needs of service users. This also includes access to smoking cessation clinics, free dental and optical examinations and flu vaccinations.
Examples of evidence required to meet standard 13:
- Blank assessment form (generic assessment with the inclusion of physical health factors or specific assessment re physical health)
- Examples of side effect tools used locally
- Local protocol on management of physical health
- Local protocol on sharing of information from physical health assessment detailing who is responsibole for follow-up action
- Example of health promotion leaflets used
Useful Resources:
- 1. British Medical Association. Quality and outcomes framework guidance. 2006 (QoF indicator MH2)
- 2. Guidance notes for 15 months health check
- 3. NICE. Schizophrenia: core interventions in the treatment and management of schizophrenia in primary and secondary care. London:NICE; 2002. NICE clinical guideline 1, page 53
- 4. NICE. Bipolar disorder: the management of bipolar disorder in adults, children and adolescents, in primary and secondary care. London:NICE; 2006. NICE clinical guideline 38, QRG pages 18-20
- 5. Marder SR, Essock SM, Miller AL, Buchanan RW, Casey DE, Davis JM, et al. Physical health monitoring of service users with schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2004;161(8):1334-49