Each person’s recovery is unique and can be influenced by a wide number of factors, including complexity, readiness to engage with treatment, feeling safe and supported, therapeutic alliance, physical state, family dynamics, previous trauma, and other associated root causes of their illness. 

The MDT use a range of skills and approaches to encourage and empower individuals to engage with treatment to develop a sense of self-determination and hope with meaningful goals to work towards. The key elements of our model of care includes consideration of goals, pathways and processes, treatments, and evaluation of care.   

Our model of care is guided by the following guiding principles: 

• We provide services based on evidence
• Co production occurs with the individual, their family where appropriate, and the referrer
• We are safe and effective services that avoid harm to service users both physically and psychologically and where the least restrictive options are employed in the treatment plan
• The care we provide is equitable and does not vary in quality because of a person’s characteristics
• We work in partnership with referring community teams and other relevant agencies to collaborate around treatment and discharge plans
• Our staff treat people with compassion, dignity, and respect
• Our services are timely and responsive to people’s needs and choices

Aims  

Our aim is to provide high quality care and treatment which supports individuals to re-establish eating and maintain a healthy weight before a successful and sustainable discharge home. We will support people in a safe and homely environment. We will work with everyone to help diminish their distress and help them achieve a better quality of life. For most people, this will involve the reduction of emotional behaviours associated with the eating disorder psychopathology and acquiring new skills necessary for surviving emotional crises, regulating emotions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.  Our aims are supported by the following objectives: 

• Having clear and focused goals 
• Supporting service users to develop coping strategies  
• Keeping admissions as short as possible 
• Encouraging and supporting family involvement 
• Planning for discharge from the point of admission 

Treatments offered 

The service offers a wide range of therapeutic group and one-to-one interventions alongside continuous monitoring of weight, physical and mental health. One-to-one interventions include: 

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) 
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) 
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy 
• Psychoeducation  

Therapeutic group therapies include: 

• Healthy eating group 
• Mindfulness 
• Social eating group 
• Over-exercise group 
• Community meetings 

Support in activities of daily living such as shopping, food preparation, leisure activities and vocational opportunities is also be provided.  

Admission Criteria 

• Women over the age of 18 years 
• May be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) 
• Primary diagnosis of an eating disorder 
• May have other diagnoses including mental illness, Personality Disorder (PD) or autism  
• May require nasogastric feeding 
• May have a history of self-harm and/or self-neglect 
• May have additional associated complex needs including a history of substance misuse or a history of trauma and/or abuse 

For further information or to discuss a potential referral please dial our 24 hr referral line on 0800 218 2398. Alternatively you can email referrals@elysiumhealthcare.co.uk or elys.referrals@nhs.net