Thalamos eMHA
A digital Mental Health Act platform enables digital transformation away from paper, Word documents and other siloed MHA processes.
A digital Mental Health Act platform enables digital transformation away from paper, Word documents and other siloed systems and MHA processes.
Thalamos eMHA ensures accurate data is received from health and care professionals, meaning it is available on demand across the Mental Health pathway at Ward, Hospital, Trust, ICS and System level.
At its core, Thalamos provides a complete digital Mental Health Act suite including all statutory admission, treatment and discharge forms for all organisations involved in care.
Headline benefits
Clinical and administrative time saved can be redirected to focus on patient care, staff training and improved services.
A typical ICS will save circa £197,000 per year, based on a Cheshire & Wirral Partnership Foundation Trust Independent QI Project on the use of Thalamos Software.
Eradication of illegible hand-writing, pre-population of patient data, user data, hospital addresses and other information entered into forms reduces error rates by 90%.
Electronically amend forms under s15 of the act within minutes. The typical resolution time for an error when using paper forms is 60 minutes across administrative and clinical time.
Audit logs track every action for each patient and form meaning no forms created on Thalamos will go missing, be left incomplete or incorrect and are available when needed – increasing efficiency and saving time.
Reduced hospital stays by between one and three days.
Thalamos can demonstrate that 66% of multi-stakeholder forms are completed in under eight hours vs two days on paper, directly leading to swifter discharge or community care.
Compounded by pathway efficiencies like reducing time to action for SOAD certificates from seven days to 15 hours.
If replicated across an ICS, a one-to-three day reduction in stay by improving efficiency and cross agency working will save between £360,000 and £1.08m per year.
Richer data quality to inform strategic decisions to improve patient outcomes and services.
Data will become an enabling by-product of the clinical pathway. Thalamos eMHA provides real-time, granular level detail which can inform care improvements – including bed management and discharge planning. Unlike paper or traditional electronic record systems, the patient specific information may be entirely anonymised to provide a wholly IG compliant means by which to report on the use of the Act.
Dashboards in eMHA enable reporting on data across teams, sites and organisations. These dashboards can report on the patients detained, how long is left on sections and a complete pathway history. This drives alerting for teams and, combined with wider operational data, can be used to inform strategic decisions such as resource allocation to improve patient outcomes and services.
A fully integrated system-wide digital eMHA pathway including, Mental Health, Acute, Social Services, Ambulance, Primary Care and Police Services.
This in turn delivers a level of system-wide data insights not previously available, which then provides significant patient care-improvements.
Interoperability between Shared Care Record, EPR, ePMA and Patient Portals ensures efficiency and security by design.
A step change in system level processing of patient mental health act data.
Statutory Functionality
Statutory Functionality
“Statutory Functionality” refers to the sections where the forms used to administer the section are set out in the legislation.
Non-statutory Functionality
Non-statutory Functionality
“Non-statutory Functionality” refers to sections where the forms used to administer the section are not set out in legislation. Non-statutory forms are included in the programme to reduce unwarranted variation in practice across London. In turn providing a consistent and interoperable data source
Users
Users
Professional Users
Thalamos functionality provides for all Mental Health Act stakeholders to be able to access their requisite MHA Forms.
Shared team views and “in-app” communication supports vastly improved multi-disciplinary working for clinical and administrative staff.
Non Health and Social Care Users
The complex nature of MHA stakeholders means non clinicians require access to the solution. Nearest relatives are included in the Sections/Forms described in “Statutory Forms” and “Non-Statutory Forms”. Patients are also required by law to be given their rights under Section 132 and their detention information.
Patients and advocates/relatives must also be able to engage with Section 17 Leave Forms.
Ministry of Justice and Police Services are also involved in some pathways. The solution fulfils all functions required by health and care organisations and the “Non-Professional Users” required to deliver pathways.
Via integrations with Patient Portals, 3rd party systems and the Local Shared Care Records, a Pan-ICS MHA Digitisation Programme will for the first time engage all stakeholders involved in the Mental Health Act.
Data, Dashboards & Live MHA Status
Data, Dashboards & Live MHA Status
ICS level MHA Digitisation provides a previously unavailable level of insight on mental health pathways. It will do so at a system level across Mental Health Trusts, Acute Trusts, Local Authorities, GP Services and Ambulance Services.
Real time data will be available on:
- MHA legal status and summary MHA history at point of assessment
- System level patient flow
- Key metrics across system partners including MHA usage and waiting times
- Rates of readmission
- Wider pathway data including where MHA powers were not used
- Interoperability to surface MHA status data in other systems
Security & Compliance
Security & Compliance
Thalamos is fully secure and auditable, leveraging responsible innovation techniques and adopting a security by design approach.
- Full Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) compliance
- Clinical Safety DCB0129 compliance
- Innovative data sharing model streamlining DPIA and information risk reduction
- Annual Crest approved Penetration Test
- Volume and performance Tests
- Annual DSP Toolkit submissions – Standards Exceeded
- Annual Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
- ISO27001 complete March 2025
