SCT Model
System Modeling for Supervised Community Treatment
The introduction of Supervised Community Treatment is one of the main modernising amendments of the Mental Health Act 2007. SCT is intended to address situations where previously detained patients leave hospital but do not continue with their treatment, leading to re-admission.
CSIP/ NIMHE has commissioned the development of SCT modeling tool software to help teams investigate the impact of the introduction of SCT.
The model features urban, suburban and rural scenarios based on KP90 data reports. The population data focuses on those with severe mental illness and divides them into 'not in specialist service', 'on community caseload;, 'informal in-patients', 'compulsory in-patients' and 'supervised in the community'.
Teams will be able to see how the scenarios work in their locality by altering parameters to reflect the situation of the local service, for example:
- length of stay of inpatients
- flows of patients who move from inpatients to community
- recall rate of SCT patients
The idea is to help local health economies model the likely impact of SCT in terms of patients flows within their system. The model runs for up to 10 years showing the patients flows before and after implementation of the new legislation.
The SCT model can be downloaded from:
WINDOWS: http://www.symmetricsd.co.uk/sct/sctmodel.exe
MAC: available soon
Note: this is a self extracting executable file. Once downloaded double click on the file and the installation process will begin.
If you experience problems downloading the model via the link above, or installing it, download the zipped file version below and follow the 2 steps to install the model.
http://www.symmetricsd.co.uk/sct/sctmodel.zip
Step 1: Open the zip file and click extract. When the dialogue box appears select a destination for extracting the files contained in the zip. Such as: “C:TempSCTModel”.
Step 2: Once the files are extracted to the destination folder, navigate to this folder and open the file called “iseeRuntime.exe”. The software will run and the SCT Model will open – this will take a few seconds.