All Learning disabilities articles – Page 5
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Relying on ‘clinical discretion’
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News‘Worrying’ gap in vaccination rates for over 80s with learning disabilities
Experts have warned that vulnerable groups risk getting ‘missed out’ after data has revealed a ‘worrying’ gap in vaccination rates for those with a learning disability and severe mental illness.
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NewsTroubled children’s service taken out of special measures
An independent children’s and adolescents’ mental health service has been taken out of special measures after cutting beds by two-thirds.
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NewsCEOs frustrated by ‘discriminatory’ approach to vaccine prioritisation
Chief executives of mental health trusts have expressed their frustration at the government’s failure to include people with learning disabilities higher up the priority list for covid vaccines.
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PodcastPodcast: Can the NHS cope with covid?
Dave West, HSJ deputy editor, joins the Spectator magazine’s podcast to explain why dealing with a major covid outbreak at the same time as winter pressure would put an extreme strain on the NHS.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Hospitals are still neglecting mental health
Acute hospitals are still not taking mental health patients seriously enough, argues HSJ’s Rebecca Thomas in this week’s Health Check podcast. We also get an update on covid pressures on the health system.
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CommentLong covid and its impact on health and social care
Health and social care services need to focus on meeting the unmet needs of people with ongoing covid, writes Elaine Maxwell
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NewsCQC reveals some patients have spent a decade in seclusion
The Care Quality Commission has called for ‘ministerial ownership’ to end the ‘inhumane’ care of patients with learning difficulties and autism in hospital – after finding some cases where people had been held in long-term segregation for more than 10 years.
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NewsReviewer ‘felt bullied by CCG’ over findings on young man’s death
An independent review found that commissioners’ investigation of a young boy’s death was ‘mismanaged’, and heard allegations that the person who coordinated it was bullied over the contents.
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NewsWards rated ‘inadequate’ treble in a year
Inspectors are finding more evidence of poor care in inpatient wards for people with a learning disability or autism, with the proportion of these services rated as ‘inadequate’ more than tripling in a year.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The NHS was not prepared for covid’s second wave
As covid wave two crashes on to the North of England, HSJ Health Check discusses the last minute scrambles in the NHS to deal with admissions, try to protect elective care, and provide mass testing for staff.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Bed constraints start to bite
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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NewsNHSE made ‘urgent’ request that patients be admitted to service despite lack of trained staff
NHS England made ‘urgent requests’ to a new eating disorder service to admit patients before staff had been properly trained, the provider has said.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Simon Says
This week the team delves into an exclusive HSJ summit interview with NHS chief executive Simon Stevens and weighs up the trade-offs the health service might need to make as covid cases rise, why legislation is still expected next year and why no comment on NHS finances could be significant. ...
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: These scandals would not be tolerated in the acute sector
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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NewsNamed: The ‘provider collaboratives’ sharing £400m specialised services budget
NHS England is transferring its £400m specialist mental health services budget to groups of providers in a major shake-up of commissioning structures.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: What a second wave means for NHS staff
The pressure is rising again on the health service but keeping it running smoothly this winter will rely on its workforce. This week the HSJ Health Check podcast focuses on some of the biggest issues facing NHS staff right now.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: A good old-fashioned NHS finance row
Payment by results is being swept away in favour of system funding and block payments — making some hospital chiefs very unhappy indeed. Meanwhile, is the government giving the NHS the money it needs to get through the pandemic? This week’s HSJ Health Check explores.
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NewsFormer minister appointed chair of major independent provider
Former care minister Paul Burstow has been appointed as the new chair of St Andrew’s Healthcare.