Mental Elf: Mental health crisis teams in England: lost in translation?

 Crisis Resolution Teams (CRTs) for working-age adults have been implemented across England since 2000. Their aim is to treat those in mental health crisis at home, reducing the need for hospital admissions. A recently published national survey (Lloyd-Evans et al, 2018) produced a snapshot of the care provided by CRTs across England in late 2016, testing how far they reflect the model set out in the policy guidance for their implementation.

Crisis teams are not a well-loved intervention among service users and survivors: the common advice to have a bath and a cup of tea has become a running joke in online mental health communities; I made a Crisis Team Bingo Card based on my own and others’ experiences from the #CrisisTeamFail hashtag on Twitter.

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