Safety plan and Goal setting are standard interventions offered by CAMHS Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team. The Department of Health Best Practice Principles and NICE guidelines recommend collaborative production of risk management plans and recovery orientated input. We wanted to ensure compliance and understand patient's views on usefulness of these.Aims:- Did all patients complete safety plan and goal setting? Was this done collaboratively?Did these strategies help?Were documents easy to access?

There were two arms to the project.

1. 1. Review of 40 electronic case notes out of 715 patients seen from Jan to April 2021. We looked at completion of safety plan, goal setting, goals achieved, HONOSCA scores, risk ratings and mood scores.

2. 2. Between April and July 2022, willing patients were requested to complete anonymised electronic questionnaire through a QR code. The questionnaire asked if patients felt included when completing the safety plan and goal setting, whether these interventions helped recovery and if the documents were easy to access. A free text option for feedback was also given.

This proposal was approved by the Improvement and Knowledge Hub within the LPT NHS trust who confirmed that ethical approval was not required.

Results are reported in percentages.

Case notes review (n=40):

• • 99% had safety plans completed, done collaboratively.

• • 90% had goal setting completed, done collaboratively

• • Rationales documented within the notes for not completing.

• • 85% reported Improved mood scores

• • 90% reported improved risk ratings

• • 65% achieved 2 or more of 3 goals set.

• • 67.5% had HONOSCA at admission (average score 13.6) and discharge (average score10.5) – improvement documented.

Questionnaires: 18 questionnaires returned.

• • 100% completed safety plan and goal setting

• • 83% reported they felt included when doing safety plan and goal setting.

• • 83% said goal setting was helpful in recovery.

• • 94% said safety plan helped.

• • 82% reported easy access to documents.

Results suggest compliance with guidelines and strategies are useful. There is consistency in relevant information from the case note review and questionnaire feedback. Case note review included objective and subjective perspectives. Questionnaires gathered patient perspective; in confidence/anonymously.

Recommendations:

1. 1. Repeat survey ensuring case review and patient feedback for same period.

2. 2. Use children and young people friendly version, offer paper version, advertise widely - to improve questionnaire response rate.

3. 3. Complete HONOSCA on admission and discharge.

4. 4. Research to explore usefulness of interventions in CYP