Health Checks for Patients with Serious Mental Illness and Eating Disorder
Serious Mental Illness
Location:
Patient’s registered surgery or at Patient’s Home if the patient is housebound.
Service delivery:
Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00
About the service:
The SMI (Serious Mental Illness) service provides SMI health checks across Peterborough, Wisbech and Cambridge. This service involves our specialist HCAs conducting a 45-minute annual physical health check with an additional 20 minute follow up appointment if appropriate. The aim of this service is to link physical and mental health within general practice, thus improving the patients overall mental and physical wellbeing.
What support do we offer:
- Appointments at your surgery or in your own home if appropriate
- Blood pressure checks
- Venepuncture (taking blood)
- Height and Weight
- Personalised Support and Care plans
- ECGs (dependant on family history and medication)
- Support accessing screening programmes (smears/mammograms/bowel screening etc)
- Support accessing vaccinations
- Lifestyle referrals and interventions such as weight management, smoking cessation, alcohol and drugs management.
Eating Disorder
Location:
Patient’s registered surgery.
Service delivery:
Monday – Thursday 09:00 – 17:00
About the service:
The Eating Disorder Medical Monitoring service supports patients with a mild to moderate eating disorder within the community. This service involves our specialist HCAs conducting a 45-minute monitoring appointment on a 4-8 weekly basis. The aim of this service is to support patients with an eating disorder closer to home and in their registered practice. Without this additional service patients would need to travel to Addenbrookes for the monitoring.
What support do we offer:
- Venepuncture (blood test)
- Blood pressure
- Heart rate
- Weight
- SUSS test (Sit up-Squat-Stand)