Modified ACT team | Community mental health team | |
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Overall patient load | 80-100 patients | ± 600 patients excluding assessments of new patients |
Individual caseload | Maximum 35 | 250 |
Workstyle | Key workers act as care coordinator but caseloads are shared | Individual caseloads |
Site of most visits | >50% contacts are home visits | Office based |
Engagement | Assertive; focus on engagement, immediate response to non-compliance | Non-assertive, no follow-up of missed appointments/reports of non-compliance |
Working hours | Office hours | Office hours |
24 hour cover | Patients referred to hospital-based after-hours service coordinated by ACT when in crisis. | After-hours service of catchment area. |
Frequency of contacts | Individualized according to patient need at least fortnightly | Depends on caseloads, varies between monthly to three monthly. |
Disciplines available | Full-time psychiatrist, social worker, Psychiatric nurse, access to psychologist, occupational therapist, dual diagnosis service. | Full-time psychiatric nurse, access to social worker and psychiatrist, varied access to occupational therapist and psychologist. |