Psychosis care pathway launched to improve mental health services

Wessex AHSN has worked with Imperial College Health Partners (the AHSN for North West London) and Southern Health Foundation Trust to develop a best practice pathway for people with psychosis.

The TRIumPH (Treatment and Recovery In PsycHosis) care pathway promotes good clinical practice, and details the services that people experiencing psychosis can expect during different phases of their care.

The pathway is informed by the success of other pathways (e.g. stroke and cardiovascular), current evidence base and by best practice guidelines. It aligns itself to the NICE Guideline for Schizophrenia (2014), the National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS), NICE Quality Standards (2015) and to the Access and Waiting Time Standards for Mental Health Services (2015/16).

The pathway is underpinned by ten Principles of Care which define the overall approach, treatments and standards. A key expectation of this pathway is that it supports timely delivery of evidence-based interventions by appropriately trained and supervised staff. Care is shaped by the monitoring of treatment outcomes using clinician and patient/service user completed outcome measures.

Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead for the Wessex AHSN Mental Health Quality Improvement Programme, Dr Shanaya Rathod, explains the rationale and development of the pathway in the video below.



These pathway documents cover aspects of care from assessment, through to treatment delivery, training and provision of clinical supervision, to discharge from secondary care services.

The pathway documents can be downloaded below. If you'd like more information about the project, please contact Alison Griffiths, Wessex AHSN Programme Manager for the Mental Health Quality Improvement Programme, at alison.griffiths@wessexahsn.net.