Liaison Old Age Psychiatry Service in a Medical Setting: Description of the Newcastle Clinical Service

Table 1

Response time for seeing patients referred to the LOAP. *Data refers to 3-month period only. Please note that for the period 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 only 3-month audits were completed on the LOAP response time.

Response times	2005-2006	2006-2007	2008-2009*	2009-2010*
Same day	287 (39.3%)	191 (31.0%)	67 (55.8%)	118 (56.5%)
Next day	209 (28.6%)	143 (23.2%)	44 (36.7%)	64 (30.6%)
2 days	127 (17.4%	51 ( 8.3%)	11 ( 9.2%)	12 ( 5.7%)
3 days	57 ( 7.8%)	68 (11.0%)	6 ( 5.0%)	5 ( 2.4%)
4 Days	31 ( 4.2%)	41 ( 6.7%)	2 ( 1.7%)	5 ( 2.4%)
5 days	7 ( 0.9%)	26 ( 4.2%)	0	1 ( 0.5%)
Over 5 days	13 ( 1.8%)	73 (11.9%)	0	4 ( 1.9%)
Unknown	—	23 ( 3.7%)	0	0
Total	731	616	120*	209*