All Mental health articles – Page 155
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Mental health services boost
Community mental health services have improved steadily over the last four years, but trusts must ensure gains are sustained when systems change next month, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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Trials offer support to staff with depression
A tool for supporting staff with depression is being tested with employers including the Department of Health, Kent County Council, Oxleas foundation trust, the Royal Mail and Tate & Lyle.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lean thinking: get your house in order
Steve Humphries, David Newby and Christine Vize ask whether techniques from manufacturing can improve healthcare provision
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health foundation trusts: F marks the spot
Just under half of mental health trusts have achieved foundation status. Helen Mooney looks at the options for those that may not be able to make the grade
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Patient choice in mental health: your shout
The views of mental health patients will become much more important over the next decade as they demand services tailored to their needs, writes Mark Gould
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Angela Greatley on tackling social exclusion
There is a group of people who are chronically excluded from housing, work, relationships and the kinds of activity most people aspire to in 21st century Britain. They exhibit the most complex problems but they can be the most excluded from the very help they need.
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Drug addiction services hit by unrealistic targets
Unrealistic targets to get more drug addicts into treatment are causing the quality of services to plummet, psychiatrists are warning.
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£1m for dementia research in Scotland
A new dementia clinical research network for Scotland is being created with £1m funding from the Scottish government.
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Huge contrasts found between UK nations
Patients in the UK’s four nations have dramatically different experiences of the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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Lisa Rodrigues on foundation trust tips
Well, we did it. Sussex Partnership foundation trust - a teaching trust of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School - was born on 1 August 2008.
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David Lee on integrating care
Two recent phone calls from different parts of the country got me thinking about what good management can do to make mental health and social care systems tick.
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Uproar over mental health advocacy services delay
Campaigners are frustrated by the delay to independent advocacy for mental health patients. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Monitor previews foundation trust finances
The regional Darzi plans will at last prompt foundation trusts to spend their surpluses, Monitor's executive chair has predicted.
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Inspections stepped up for learning disability services
The Healthcare Commission is inspecting 48 specialist inpatient learning disability services to examine progress made following a national audit that uncovered 'unacceptable' variations in quality.
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Call for improved acute mental health services
National quality standards should be introduced for mental health services in emergency departments and acute wards, the Academy of Royal Colleges has said.The call follows the publication of a report, led by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which has found dramatic variation in provision between hospitals.
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Spreading the word about NHS careers
Taking part in a new careers initiative could help NHS organisations raise their profile among job seekers
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NICE chairman hits back at critics
Some recent criticisms of NICE's work ignore the realities of modern healthcare and misrepresent the facts. Institute chairman Sir Michael Rawlins sets the record straight
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Leader
Young promises new regime will deliver speed and independence
The language used by the chair of the Care Quality Commission in her interview with HSJ was typically clear, robust and ambitious.
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Guilty by emission as carbon cuts loom large
The NHS emits a million tonnes of carbon a year, but it must cut this figure drastically. Helen Crump asks whether trusts are giving this issue the priority it requires and highlights some innovative ideas.
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Watchdog chair to get tough on obeying NICE rules
Care Quality Commission chair Baroness Young has pledged to crack down on NHS organisations that fail to adopt National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance.Ignoring guidelines could result in marked-down annual assessment ratings and lower pay, she told HSJ in her first interview in her role at the new ...