Case study of a stepped-care psychological service for healthcare professionals working in critical care.

Psychological injury is common among healthcare professionals and is expected to be further exacerbated by the current global pandemic, with the far-reaching impacts of this workplace trauma yet to be fully realised. Our Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department sought to proactively introduce strategies that might reduce the anticipated short- and longer-term negative impact of the pandemic on staff and ultimately patients and families. Our organisation facilitated the temporary redeployment of senior psychologists to provide staff-focused support.

Referrals to the Glasgow sheriff court liaison scheme since the introduction of referral criteria.

This study is an audit of a court liaison scheme operating in Glasgow sheriff court. It represents a follow-on of previous work after the introduction of referral criteria to delineate more closely the appropriate population to be seen. Results were compared with the previous audit.