All Mental health articles – Page 154

  • Comment

    Lisa Rodrigues on the financial crisis and the NHS

    2008-10-20T01:00:00Z

    We live in strange and worrying times. As I write, another building society has been nationalised.

  • News

    City shockwaves threaten NHS budget

    2008-10-16T09:00:00Z

    Economists are warning this week's£38bn rescue plan for UK banks creates a "structural hole" in public finances that will make NHS funding cuts and claw-backs inevitable.The government has insisted the bank bail-out will not affect public finances. A senior Treasury source said there were no plans to revisit the commitments ...

  • News

    Annual health check case study: Dorset healthcare foundation trust

    2008-10-16T09:00:00Z

    Dorset Healthcare foundation trust reached double excellent with an improvement in its resources rating from good in 2006-07.

  • Comment

    Mental health volunteering scheme has global ambitions

    2008-10-10T01:00:00Z

    This World Mental Health Day, South London and Maudsley foundation trust is supporting a new initiative to encourage volunteering with VSO.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Mental health and the NHS workforce

    2008-10-06T01:00:00Z

    There is much value in bringing people who have used mental health services into the NHS team, says Alastair Henderson

  • Comment

    David Lee on foundation trust constitutions

    2008-10-06T01:00:00Z

    In 1968 John Lennon wrote this lyric in the song Revolution: 'You say you'll change the constitutionƒ we all want to change your head'. It is still relevant today.

  • Comment

    Angela Greatley on mental health and the media

    2008-10-03T01:00:00Z

    Much has been written about the media's handling of mental health issues. We know from countless studies that mass media in the UK and abroad focus disproportionately on violent acts committed by people with severe mental illnesses while rarely considering the lives people with a range of mental health conditions ...

  • News

    Care vs security in mental health services

    2008-10-02T09:00:00Z

    Excitable media coverage means the public is in fear of mental health service users. Should a very low level of security be accepted or should the emphasis shift towards public safety? By Charlotte Santry

  • News

    Adult mental health spend stays patchy

    2008-10-02T09:00:00Z

    NHS spending on adult mental health services increased by 3.7 per cent in real terms last year to £5.5bn, but is still unequal between regions.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Are we killing psychiatric patients with food?

    2008-09-26T09:00:00Z

    High-calorie meals and little exercise mean psychiatric inpatients often put on weight and damage their health. Sharmila Menon looks at how hospitals can manage the problem without violating patients' rights

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Developing user-led standards in mental health

    2008-09-26T09:00:00Z

    Developing user-led standards has increased patient involvement and improved the quality of care at one mental health trust. Tony Leiba and Caroline Mathiason explain

  • HSJ Partners

    Improving inpatient mental health services

    2008-09-23T09:00:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission review of acute inpatient care, Pathway to Recovery, marks a milestone in the ongoing effort to achieve a step change in the quality of inpatient mental health services.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Catching mental illness early

    2008-09-22T09:00:00Z

    New primary care teams are helping to catch people early in the spectrum of mental illness. Stuart Shepherd explains

  • News

    Mental health lacks national vision

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Mental health plans arising from the next stage review lack ambition and risk being 'lost' as the service focuses on other sectors, managers are warning.

  • News

    Moyes warns: invest in governance

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Foundation trusts have been warned they are not investing enough time or money in memberships and boards of governors. The Department of Health may reassert its control if an organisations cannot prove it is locally accountable, said Bill Moyes, executive chairman of regulator Monitor.

  • News

    Learning disability housing plans at risk

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    The pledge to shut all 'outmoded' NHS homes for adults with learning disabilities by 2010 is at risk, HSJ has learnt. Poor quality local proposals have been blamed for slow progress on the commitment.

  • Comment

    Mike Hobbs on mental health discrimination

    2008-09-16T09:00:00Z

    People with mental illness are subject to prejudice in our society. Although attitudes to people with anxiety and depression have improved, attitudes towards people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia have worsened.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS vocational training: branching out

    2008-09-15T09:00:00Z

    A mental health and learning disability trust has helped one of its rehabilitation schemes become a social firm. Alison Moore reports

  • News

    Care integration must tackle inequality

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Organisations in integrated care pilot schemes will be expected to deliver measurable improvements on health inequalities, the Department of Health has revealed.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Bringing mental health under the NHS wing

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Successive governments have left mental health in the shadows. At the Liberal Democrat conference leader Nick Clegg will outline his plans to turn the sector around and make it truly patient centred