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Mental Health Service Older Persons (MHSOP) Inpatient Services

Programme Areas

Crisis / acute, Mental health

Programme Type

Acute services

Regions

Wellington, Hutt

Age Groups

Older adult / Kaumātua

Referral Types

DHB clinical services

Referral Process

Referrals for inpatient admission are usually facilitated by the community team or by referrals from the general hospital.

Description

The Mental Health Service Older Persons (MHSOP) has a 16 bed specialist inpatient unit located at Te Whare Ra Uta on the Kenepuru campus.

Each person admitted to the inpatient unit has a primary nurse and associate nurse assigned to them; they are usually also assessed by the medical staff on the day of admission, and later during the admission, as the need is identified, by other members of the multidisciplinary team.

The multidisciplinary team works closely with whānau, informal support systems and other providers of health care services who will be actively involved in discharge planning alongside the person or tāngata whaiora.