All Mental health articles – Page 161
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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
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HSJ Knowledge
Training: cognitive therapy first
A nursing director has developed an online cognitive behavioural therapists' course as part of his MBA. Lyn Whitfield reports
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News
Monitor plans for foundation trust failures
Foundation trust regulator Monitor is anticipating that some 47 acute and mental health trusts will not make it to foundation trust status by 2010.
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Comment
David Lee on mental health heroes
As every good HSJ reader knows, good management is not about heroics or donning a Superman costume. Good management in mental health is about supporting local innovation and frontline service improvements.
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HSJ Knowledge
A case for integrated mental healthcare
A patient's experience is not fragmented, discontinuous and segregated so why is their treatment? Samantha Allen and Heather Hurford argue for integrated care
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health history: taking over the asylum
In our latest feature marking the NHS’s 60th anniversary, Mark Gould charts the journey from Victorian asylums to the national service framework and recent backward steps
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Comment
Angela Greatley on mental health at work
It may not always be apparent to all of the 1 million plus staff of the NHS, but being in employment is a major determinant of good health.