In 2017, Navigo Community Interest Company evaluated the implementation of CAMS for a highly deprived ward with a population of over 165,000 people. This research project was the basis of a PhD thesis and was the first project to evaluate the use of CAMS in National Health Service-commissioned health and social care services in the United Kingdom.

Within two years of implementing this system of care for mental health, the following preliminary outcomes had been realised:

• Increased healthcare clinicians’ confidence in assessing and treating suicidal patients
• Greatly reduced waiting time for care
• Reduced number of individuals requiring a crisis contact
• Lower average of Crisis total contacts and fewer individuals requiring subsequent inpatient admissions
• Reduced local suicide rates (preliminary data suggested an initial reduction of 80%)

The article, available for download below, published with permission, describes the processes and outcomes of Navigo’s custom implementation of CAMS as their primary system of care for suicidality among the mentally ill in this community.