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A groundbreaking partnership between South Yorkshire Police and the NHS has been launched this week, to ensure people with emergency mental health issues are kept out of police cells, assessed by trained nurses and taken to places of safety.
The ?street triage? scheme will see mental health nurses join police officers on 999 calls in order to help people who are believed to need urgent mental health support.
This week, the six-month pilot scheme was launched in Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster and it is set to be extended to Barnsley in April. If successful, this new partnership will be made permanent.
http://www.retfordtoday.co.uk/news/...s-launch-pioneering-new-parntership-1-6377173
The ?street triage? scheme will see mental health nurses join police officers on 999 calls in order to help people who are believed to need urgent mental health support.
This week, the six-month pilot scheme was launched in Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster and it is set to be extended to Barnsley in April. If successful, this new partnership will be made permanent.
http://www.retfordtoday.co.uk/news/...s-launch-pioneering-new-parntership-1-6377173