All Mental health articles – Page 158
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Hilary Thomas on new perspectives on caring
Looking back, 2007 was an odd year for me. Making a career change has been inspiring and invigorating. The fact that it coincided with moving back to London, putting a year of treatment behind me and the clunky dawn of my sense of mortality and ordinariness has added to my ...
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David Lee on managing risk
One of the joys of NHS management is that you learn something new every day - sometimes an awful lot. Take, for example, the assurance framework and risk register. Not long ago, if I'd been asked about them in a pub quiz I'd have had to guess. But now I ...
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Improving mental health procurement
Two mental health projects in the East Midlands are improving outcomes and cutting costs through better procurement practices.
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Specialist mental health services at risk, say campaigners
The closure of a psychiatric hospital could be a 'warning sign' that specialist mental health services across the country are at risk, campaigners fear.
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Achieving race equality in mental healthcare
New training materials will help address inequalities in mental healthcare, writes Peter Ferns
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Lisa Rodrigues on the NHS's influential people
In response to HSJ's list of the 50 most influential people in the NHS, I thought I would offer my own list of the people who have influenced my career in the NHS. It includes people I think make a difference, go that extra mile or who have influenced me ...
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Cost-saving pilots
Two projects in the East Midlands are not only achieving better outcomes for people with enduring mental illnesses but making significant cost savings.
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Mental health dismissal was 'outrageous' says tribunal
A mental health trust has been slammed for the way it handled the unlawful sacking of a psychiatrist with mental health problems.
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Scotland aims to improve dementia diagnosis
Targets for early diagnosis of dementia, guidance on supporting people with substance misuse and mental health problems, and a mental health collaborative to drive change around targets have been announced in Scotland.
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Secure care: improving life in locked wards
The latest specifications for housing patients in medium secure care clarify the rules and include welcome proposals to improve life in locked wards. Rebecca Norris reports
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Reducing self-harm in acute psychiatric wards
Regularly checking on patients, raising the proportion of qualified nurses and organising more patient activity sessions can reduce self-harm and suicide attempts in psychiatric hospitals, according to one of the UK's largest research studies into self-harm on acute psychiatric wards
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Report exposes failings of private mental healthcare
Commissioners have been urged to check the quality of private mental health providers, as figures reveal many are failing to meet national standards.
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Mental health advocacy services delayed six months
Advocacy services for mental health patients subject to community treatment orders are not expected to be introduced until six months after the orders are brought in.
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Learning difficulties report slates poor care and lack of activities
The Healthcare Commission has published a damning report into the standard of residential care the NHS and private sector provide to people with learning difficulties.
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psych nib
Most primary care trusts see psychological therapies as unimportant, according to a report by the Artemis Trust. The charity has carried out a survey of the provision of psychological therapy services in primary care, which found that PCTs have a 'very poor picture' of what services were being provided. It ...
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Transforming lives with psychological therapies
A Department of Health programme that is making evidence-based psychological therapies more widely available than ever before means thousands of people and their families are having their lives transformed. Evidence shows the programme can reduce GP consultations and acute care activity, alleviating pressure when the NHS is working hard to ...
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Networking to improve access to psychological therapies
The London Development Centre's improving access to psychological therapies network was set up to ensure there was an effective communication strategy to promote knowledge and information across London's health and social care communities.
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Improving access to psychological therapies in London
The London Development Centre's improving access to psychological therapies support programme is designed to equip primary care trusts with the tools and techniques needed to drive forward the development of psychological therapy services.
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Mental health: no-one wins in homicide blame game
Often inspired by media hysteria, inquiries into homicides by mentally ill people cost the NHS millions each year and produce little real change, says Christine Vize
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Karen Reissmann
A chief executive who sacked a trade unionist nurse has broken her silence after months of strike action.Sheila Foley, head ofManchestermental health and social care trust, has until now remained tight-lipped about the dismissal of senior nurse Karen Reissman, who says she lost her job for speaking out in her ...