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Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Host Families
HPFT’s Host Families Scheme
Health and Wellbeing Board: Provider Engagement
11February 2013
John Lavelle-Service Line Lead
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
What is a Host Family?
Any family (in conjunction with mental health professionals) that can offer a supportive home environment to a service user in an acute phase of mental ill health as an alternative to acute inpatient care.
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Host families’ key Aims• To develop a service that is
recovery orientated and offers choices to service users who are experiencing an episode of acute mental ill health.
• Provide a least restrictive alternative to admission that is person centred, therapeutic, safe and cost effective.
• Reduce mental heath stigma.• Maintain connections with
society.
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
What We Did
• Visited a Host Family Scheme in Lille, France and gained their support in developing the HPFT model.
• Worked in partnership with key stakeholders; service users, carers and clinicians in developing the scheme.
• Recruited Host Families and developed a support network for them.
• Built the confidence of local clinicians in the efficacy of the Host Family scheme.
• Commissioned an independent evaluation.
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Progress So Far
• 5 Families have been recruited and inducted.• 4 families being recruited.• 14 Service users have chosen placements as an
alternative to hospital. • Early feedback has been excellent .
• Increased referral rates for Host Family placements as clinicians become confident in the scheme.
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Service Improvement • Offers choice to service users experiencing acute mental
ill health.• Provides a personalised and de-institutional approach to
acute mental healthcare.• Offers 24 hour support within a safe, community based
environment.• A cost effective alternative to inpatient care.• Delivers good clinical outcomes. • Excellent service user feedback .
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Host Families Service User Feedback
• Dean was asked, what were the benefits of being placed with a host family?
• “It changed a lot of aspects of my thinking. You don’t think you’ll ever be in that situation [the ward]. All of a sudden you are in this deep big hole, and then when I was in the host family I was above ground. I was happier – talking to someone who will listen to you all the while. I would say that it saved me. … If I had left the ward and gone straight back home I would have deteriorated again, without a shadow of a doubt.”
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Aspirations For The Future • Role out the scheme across all of
Hertfordshire so that service users will have the choice of a Host Family in their area.
• Provide a significant alternative to inpatient care that will deliver efficiencies in acute care pathway.
• Promote this model to other trusts through conferences, posters, publications and winning this award!
Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust
Any Questions or Comments
?