MENTAL health workers have been offered a new training guide to help deliver high quality tailor-made care to patients.

The innovative new guide has been introduced by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust which provides NHS mental health services to people in Kirklees and the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber.

The Clinical Delivery System Template (CDST) 2011 is a guide that staff working in teams across the trust’s adult and older people’s mental health services will use to summarise individual’s care needs and develop packages of support to meet them.

It does not set out a strict process to be followed, it establishes a template for clinical interventions that will be person-centred and tailored to individual’s needs and outcomes.

Dr Christina Walters, from the Trust’s InPAC team, said: “The system will improve how our clinicians support people as it provides much more guidance around individual care to meet a person’s needs which is focused on their wellbeing and recovery outcomes. This is the first time a tool as comprehensive as this has been developed, which builds on national guidance, and provides examples and templates of care.”

For more information about the CDST 2011 contact the Trust’s InPAC team on 01924 327430 or visit www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/cdst