Ref: FOI 340-2023
Thank you for obtaining this response. Please pass on my thanks to the clinician/s involved too. I would like to seek clarification on some of the answers so that we have the details we need for this project.
Question 2
• Can you please ask the service to outline what is involved in Intensive Clinical Management ICM.?
• Please ask the service how the Compassion Focused Therapy pilot was delivered. Was this as outpatient therapy once per week or provided more intensively?
Question 3
• The answer to question 3 concerning ICM states that ICM will vary in intensity and frequency. While we appreciate that the intensity of the treatment will vary depending on patient need, for this project we need to know specifics around the maximum intensity of treatment that such services are able to provide. This is because we are then intending to map this nationally against a recommended level derived from the academic evidence. Can you please ask the service what ICM could entail – as a maximum – in terms of the number of contacts per week and the duration of those contacts?
• Please ask the service whether the answer to the sub-question about supervised meal support relates solely to the paused Day Treatment programme? If meal support can be provided as part of ICM please can they disclose the maximum number of meals that can be supported per day?
Question 8
• In line with the principles behind section 16 of the FOI Act, could the service please disclose the typical number of patients it would expect to be receiving Intensive Clinical Management ICM. at any one time?