All Mental health articles – Page 158
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Leader
DH must step in to protect the vulnerable
The government needs to rethink its plan to exclude sectioned mental health patients from the protection of the Corporate Manslaughter Act for up to five years.
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News
Academics slam two-tier corporate manslaughter legislation
The exclusion of sectioned patients from a new law aimed at protecting people from dangerous management practices is being condemned as 'scandalous'.
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News
Dementia care 'should be personalised' - CSCI
Care for people with dementia should be personalised and see beyond their condition, a report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Service redesign: fast and effective change
Susannah Strong looks at the Care Services Improvement Partnership's 10 high impact changes for health and social care
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News
SHA releases psychiatric killers' reports
Two reports into psychiatric patients who killed have been released by NHS East of England - more than five years after the incidents.
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Comment
Michael White on dementia services
Being in government is a bit like fighting forest fires, the kind that sweep through tinder-dry acres in countries a lot hotter than ours.
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News
Share rising mental health costs, says King's Fund
The cost of mental health services is expected to rise by 45 per cent over the next 20 years, the King’s Fund has predicted.But in its long-awaited report on the future funding of mental health services, it says the NHS should not be expected to fund the increased cost alone.
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Leader
Drugs' benefits go further than the patient
The vertiginous rise in mental health costs predicted in a King's Fund report this week should trigger debate about which drugs are approved for use.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving psychiatric intensive care training
A 10-day web-based training course on psychiatric intensive care is aimed at improving services for the most vulnerable patients.
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Comment
Raj Persaud on medicine and the media
At the beginning of the year, the treatment of mood disorders made big news. 'Prozac does not work, say scientists', was the kind of headline we read.
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HSJ Knowledge
Universal protection for vulnerable patients
Mental capacity advocates should be available to vulnerable patients who need them, but this is not always the case. Georgina Rowley explains the advocates' role
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News
Mental health requires combined approach
Samantha Allen's article on the non-holistic approach in some mental health services, which too often separates the body from the mind, is spot on.
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News
Mental health trust hires consultants to lift flagging morale
A mental health trust that has been without a permanent chief executive for nearly a year has recruited external consultants to boost morale as it emerged another high profile candidate has pulled out of the post.
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HSJ Knowledge
Military medical care: the war at home
In recent years the military has entrusted acute medical services to the NHS, and psychiatric care to an independent provider. But this has led to claims that the nation is failing those who have fought in its wars. Mark Gould reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Safeguarding vulnerable people - employers' duties
NHS employers should be aware of new rules on vetting people who work with children and vulnerable adults. Rachel Heenan explains
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Comment
Angela Greatley on mental healthcare in prison
Late last month, a Prison Officers’ Association official claimed that prison had become so comfortable that prisoners were no longer trying to escape.
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News
Services failed patients who went on to kill, review finds
Reviews of two killings by people with mental health problems in Wales have found shortcomings in their treatment and care.
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News
Immigrants 'need psycho-social bridge'
The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, has linked gang violence with the lack of mental healthcare available to immigrants.
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HSJ Partners
CSIP factsheet on administering medicines
The Care Services Improvement Partnership's housing learning and improvement network has published an online factsheet to help practitioners, commissioners, care service managers and housing managers in extra care housing deal with issues surrounding administering medicines.
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the floor: dementia services
Janice Bond is a senior occupational therapist with Sussex Partnership trust. She works on a joint health and social services support scheme for people with dementia