All Mental health articles – Page 108
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NewsIndependent sector profits from lack of NHS secure beds
A lack of secure inpatient NHS beds has driven a £21m overspend in NHS England’s budget for independent sector mental health providers. HSJ analysis reveals the organisation overspent £21m on independent mental health providers, 5 per cent more than its planned spending on this sector.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegration: the future of liaison psychiatry
One trust took radical steps to join up care
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NewsExclusive: Serious disturbance at Broadmoor followed staffing concerns
Police and ambulance crews were called to a serious disturbance at Britain’s most high-profile secure mental health hospital - months after staff raised concerns about under-manned wards, it has emerged.
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Blogs
You need more than a change in the law to improve care
Without resources and changes in attitude things remain the same
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NewsCQC to launch crisis care inspections in summer
Services for people in mental health crisis are to be put under the spotlight this summer with a round of targeted inspections by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBacktrack on axed London mental health fund
NHS England back-tracked on its plan to slash nearly £4m from London mental health budgets in 2013-14, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsSerco boss to head up specialist hospital firm
A senior director at outsourcing giant Serco is to step down from her role to become the chief executive of the Huntercombe Group, a hospital and specialist care centre provider.
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HSJ LocalMental health trust boosts staff in response to Francis report
WORKFORCE: A West Midlands mental health trust has boosted staff numbers in response to the Francis report, recent board papers show.
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NewsExclusive: Robert Francis joins critics in mental health funding row
Robert Francis QC has expressed surprise at the decision by NHS England and Monitor to use his report into failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust as justification for higher funding cuts to mental health.
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CommentReaders' letters – 11 April 2014
Readers’ views on prescription charges and children’s mental health services
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NewsLamb warns against referrals for ‘gay conversion’ therapy
Health minister Norman Lamb has written to NHS England calling for reassurances that GPs are not referring gay and lesbian people to controversial practitioners who say they can “cure” people of homosexuality.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeprivation of liberty – guidelines from the Supreme Court
What constitutes a deprivation of liberty?
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CommentGood luck with the new job, Simon. Here's your to-do list…
Experts outline the biggest issues facing the new NHS England chief
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NewsHunt safety plans 'will require frontline investment'
Providers will need to invest “significant” time in ensuring frontline staff can deliver the plans to improve patient safety which were announced by the health secretary last week, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health providers in dark over choice rules as deadline nears
The government has failed to issue guidance on the operation of a new legal right of choice for mental health patients, ahead of it coming into force next week.
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NewsMinister: Mental health trusts should 'fight' over contracts
A health minister has indicated mental health providers should “fight” contracts with commissioners in cases where they would be “losing out” due to the greater price reduction for the sector specified in controversial national guidance.
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NewsHunt to launch patient safety 'movement' to halve harm
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to use a major speech in the US today to launch a “patient safety movement” aimed at halving rates of avoidable harm in the NHS over the next three years.
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CommentCompassion and cost-effectiveness can work together
Compassion should be central to everything in the NHS