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

Table 2

Break down of first contact by members of the LOAP team. F/F: face to face, T/C: telephone contact. *refers to joint (doctor/nurse) assessment (𝑛=188; 18.7%; 𝑛=121, 15.3% for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 year, resp.). **During this period there was a full time clinical trainee attached to the service.

Period	T/C Nurse	F/F Nurse	T/C Doctor	F/F Doctor	No reported contact	Total F/F
						Nurses	Doctors	Total
2005-2006	161 (22.0%)	321 (43.9%)	23 (3.2%)	226 (30.9%)	0	482 (65.9%)	249 (34.1%)	731 (100.0%)
2006-2007	74 (12.0%)	182 (29.6%)	20 (3.3%)	315 (51.1%)	25 (4.0%)	256 (41.6%)	335** (53.4%)	616 (96.0%)
2008-2009	50 (5.0%)	543* (54.0%)	24 (2.4%)	179* (17.8%)	21 (2.1%)	593* (59.0%)	203* (20,2%)	1005 (97.9%)
2009-2010	0 (0.0%)	546* (69.2%)	18 (2.3%)	85* (10.8%)	19 (2.4%)	546* (69.2%)	103* (13.1%)	789 (97.6%)