SAFER-YCL: Digital care bundle for CAMHS Crisis and Liaison
Research type
Research Study
Full title
SAFER-YCL: Investigating the feasibility of digital CAMHS crisis and liaison discharge documents.
IRAS ID
353617
Contact name
Josephine Holland
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Of Nottingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
000, 000
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 31 days
Research summary
When a young person requires support from specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) this will often involve different teams at different times, with the young person moving from one team to another. CAMHS Crisis and Liaison teams are designed to give short term, intensive, support to young people experiencing mental health crisis and aim to reduce the need for hospital admission. However, when the time comes to be discharged by these teams it can be a point of increased risk and vulnerability, where young people and their families can lack support and information about ongoing care. Improvement of movements between teams and services will help care experiences for young people, families, and professionals.
The SAFER-YCL care bundle has been adapted with input from stakeholders across CAMHS services. Following completion of this pump-priming, the study team would look to build the digital SAFER-YCL care bundle and trial it within CAMHS services with the aim of developing evidence-based care practices which improve both efficiency and young people/family/clinician experiences of transitions within CAMHS.
This proposed pump-priming project will provide early translational work to enable a future scalable trial of this intervention. It will explore how this care bundle could be digitalized and made accessible to young people, carers and healthcare professionals at all times, through existing NHS digital infrastructure.
This project will investigate how existing NHS digital platforms can be used to host documents about a young person’s CAMHS Crisis and Liaison care, namely the SAFER-YCL care bundle.
REC name
North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
25/NW/0091
Date of REC Opinion
4 Apr 2025
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion