All Mental health articles – Page 127
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HSJ KnowledgeGoing green for public health: transforming cities to help health and wellbeing
Liverpool’s green infrastructure strategy is proving that environmental provision such as open spaces will support wellbeing, and could have many lessons for other cities to learn from across the UK. Dr Paula Grey explains.
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NewsNHS trusts to take over community service assets
Acute and mental health trusts are to be given the chance to acquire billions of pounds worth of property assets used to provide community services, with final decisions due by the end of the year.
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NewsHealth charities to lose £100m in funding after council cuts
Reductions in local government funding could see more than £100m in budget cuts forced upon thousands of charities and voluntary groups, according to research.
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NewsMental health incentives could be removed
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s recommendation that financial incentives for GPs to support patients with depression should be axed has sparked concern from the mental health sector.
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Foundations reap income from transferred services
Foundation trusts have taken on community services with an annual income value estimated at £2.4bn for 2011-12, Monitor figures released to HSJ reveal.
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NewsMental health patient suicides halve in volume
Suicide among NHS inpatients in England with mental health problems has more than halved in 11 years, figures show.
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NewsApplication of liberty safeguards 'inconsistent'
Legislation designed to safeguard people deemed incapable of making decisions is being applied inconsistently across England, figures suggest.
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HSJ KnowledgeDelivering effective care: five elements that define a better service
Interviews with service users, carers and health professionals have identified the five elements that define effective care. Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and colleagues report.
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Blogs
Learning lessons in mental health care from around the world
A global call for action into mental health research has set out a list of priorities that identify the most pressing challenges to delivering improved mental health care and improving the lives of people with mental health in the UK
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Blogs
The five laws for delivering integrated care
The listening exercise is over and the results are in; the NHS Future Forum insists integrated care must underpin how health and social care is delivered – and they are right. But do we really understand what this means, and what it implies?
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HSJ KnowledgeProviding mental healthcare alongside physical healthcare
A mental health trust in Birmingham has developed a new model for patient assessment and discharge that helps address the full spectrum of patient needs in one assessment. Professor George Tadros explains how this award-winning service works - and the difference it makes to mental health awareness.
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NewsGovernment green lights first provider competition plans
Patients will be given a choice of providers for mental health and community NHS services, the government has announced.
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NewsBoard meetings take few decisions, report finds
Less than 2 per cent of agenda items presented to trust board meetings require decisions, a study of more than 1,000 NHS board papers has found.
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NewsLondon 2012 health services will not face CQC checks
The Care Quality Commission will no longer register air ambulances, IVF clinics carrying out ultrasounds or any health services established for the London 2012 Olympics under plans published today.
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NewsFT delays will create near impossible challenge, Monitor warns
Authorising aspirant foundation trusts by 2014 will be an “almost impossible challenge” if the Department of Health decides to “backload” applications, Monitor’s chair has warned.
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NewsMental health strategy needs plan, say managers
Mental health managers have demanded the Department of Health reveals how the mental health strategy would be implemented, amid warnings of growing “frustration” and government cuts hitting services.
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NewsRise in complaints about health bodies
A parliamentary watchdog investigated double the number of complaints about government departments in the past year than in the previous 12 months, a report has said.
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NewsMonitor directors say FTs 'opportunistic' in acquiring community services
The foundation trust regulator has criticised the “opportunistic” approach of trusts to absorbing community services.
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NewsEaston: QIPP can provide 'crisis' needed to break hospital dependence
The NHS’s £20bn savings drive can provide the “crisis” it needs to transform physical healthcare in the same way it has transformed mental health services, Jim Easton said yesterday.
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NewsMental health facing 'critical window' of opportunity
The mental health sector needs to take advantage of a “critical window” to be involved in the changes to the NHS, Department of Health figures have said.