contact assessment

contact assessment

The initial interaction between a person needing care and a health and/or social care agency in the UK, during which basic personal information is collected and verified, the nature of the individual’s presenting concerns/difficulties is established, and a brief initial assessment is made of whether the person has greater health and social care needs, at which time a referral can be made or the individual can undergo further assessment.
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Directors were asked how many direct contact assessment hours and number of integrated reports are preferred prior to internship.
Mean responses for assessment competencies, adequacy of intern preparation, desired coursework, desired experience with tests, number of direct contact assessment hours, and number of integrated assessment reports are reported for the full sample and for subgroups of the sample (i.
Percentages for preferred number of direct contact assessment hours were 0-49 hours (5.
Psychology internship directors' perceptions of pre-internship training preparation in assessment
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Mr Roberts said he would write to the health trust to ask them to examine their systems of first contact assessment with patients who attended in crisis for the first time.
'No-one could have seen that he would kill mum and sister'
Once someone had been in touch we had to do an initial contact assessment in two days, which was not usually a problem.
Social services at breaking point
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Addressing risks and benefits: emerging technologies assessed for safety and health of farming people
1) Contact assessments are brief screening assessments of people with short-term or non-complex needs to support them to live at home.
Aged care: National interRAI service to be established
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