1 CASE STUDY Mental Health Acute and Community Teams Background The Trust’s Adult mental health teams are a collection of medium-sized services that provide a range of acute and community care for service users with complex mental health problems. Historically, there had never been a link between the demand and capacity of the service. Future plans for their change in payment meant they had to re-evaluate the way in which they were delivering care, in order to benefit from the future change. The Executive team invited Meridian in to conduct an analysis with the view that the new systems and processes would help them answer the question “how much resource do we need to deliver this service within its service targets?” The Adult mental health service withi

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