This book focuses on highlighting bed management processes in providing service delivery for patients who have had an acute reaction to a mental breakdown and need admission. The book is also intended to inspire those who wish to consolidate their management skills with their professional development.
Primarily, the role of the bed manager is in the areas of admission to the hospital, transfers between wards, assisting and predicting flow through the in-patient pathway, assisting clinical teams with informal and formal delayed discharges, producing bed management-related reports, analysing and overseeing, of course, with support from colleagues from other departments of the trust, and ensuring that those patients placed in ÔOut of AreaÕ treatment placements are followed up in the expectation that these patients will be quickly brought back to their locality.