MAST
MAST (Multi-Agency Support Team) is an award-winning service providing support at Bradford Royal Infirmary and Airedale General Hospital, and in the community on discharge.
Peer support to provide people with the help they need to get to the root of the challenges they face.
Working in partnership, each organisation focuses on a different specialist area, including mental health, alcohol use, frailty, social prescribing providing support to frequent attenders, enabling and supporting timely discharge, reducing risk, and reducing admissions.
The team works collaboratively in A&E with other organisations such as ALPS (Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service), Occupational Therapists, MAIDT (Multi-agency Integrated Discharge Team) and ACT (Alcohol Care Team).
In 2023-24...

we delivered 7,484 sessions of support in hospital and 2,253 sessions in our communities.

we delivered 64% more sessions of support in our hospitals.

44% increase in the number of people who reported being able to manage their own physical/mental wellbeing after our support.

44% increase in the number of people who reported being able to manage their own physical/mental wellbeing after our support.
Partners
- The Cellar Trust – Mental health support
- Project 6 – Alcohol support
- Carers’ Resource– Frailty support
- HALE and Keighley Healthy Living – Specialist social prescribing
Funders
MAST is funded by Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership via Project 6- lead provider.
Partnership
In partnership with the NHS