March 17

The surveillance period ended in November 2016, but data collection is ongoing and the team are busy chasing non-returned questionnaires for reported cases. The response rate is rising with 86% of questionnaires returned by BPSU clinicians, and 67% questionnaires returned by CAPSS clinicians. This is a great result, knowing that many of these cases are reported by a smaller number of clinicians, putting pressure on this group and increasing their workload. Please continue to return any outstanding questionnaires from the surveillance period November 2015-November 2016. The follow up questionnaires are also being sent and returned with a good response rate – 70% for BPSU and 69% for CAPSS. Please look out for these as they will continue to be sent monthly until August 2017.

Initial results from the surveillance period are being looked at which is very exciting. In general they indicate poor transition processes for young people with less than 25% of clinicians holding a transition planning meeting or having a handover period, and less than 50% having the referral to an adult mental health service accepted. Approximately 40% of referrals were to a specialist Adult ADHD service.

Please contact Helen for further information or any queries on the surveillance study.