About Us

The Pathway Development Service has been commissioned by the Secure Services Commissioning Team for the Yorkshire and Humber region.
People with Personality Disorders have often been excluded from services and experienced fragmented and inconsistent care. There is now a growing interest and commitment to improving provision for people with this diagnosis.

The Pathway Development Service has been designed to respond to national policy guidance highlighting the need to develop robust and coherent care pathways and improve links between forensic and non-forensic service provision for people with Personality Disorders.

The PDS will evolve over the next twelve months and we would hope to expand the range of partners to further effective collaborative working with personality disorder.

The service has three core areas of business

1.  To map services accross the region.

•  Community Services
•  Accommodation
•  Women
•  Secure mental health provision
•  Criminal Justice

The mapping process focuses on those services which do or could work with service users who have traits consistent with the diagnosis of personality disorder. The aim is to utilise this information in creating care pathways for service users and to identify gaps in provision across the Yorkshire and Humber region.

2.  Assessment of service users with a presentation consistant with the diagnosis of personality disorder.

The aim of this work is to inform clinical decision making by providing considered recommendations in relation to service users potentially accessing forensic, in-patient or community based packages of support. Click here if you want to know more about referrals.

3.  Providing training and consultation for service providers to enhance the skills of the workforce and develop capacity of services to work more effectively with service users with the diagnosis of personality disorder

What we do is underpinned by a shared understanding across the team that:

• People with the diagnosis of personality disorder should, wherever possible, have their needs met in the community.
• When individuals do need to be in secure settings, planning from an early stage for a clear pathway out is a crucial aspect of the recovery process.
• It is our task then to ensure there is due consideration given for effective community provision which is commensurate with need and risk issues for all those referred and to assist those within secure services to make a transition to community settings when appropriate to do so.