All Mental health articles – Page 179
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A million Londoners have problems accessing mental healthcare
Over a million Londoners have a mental health problem but access to treatment is inadequate, according to a report by the London Assembly.The report said long waiting lists, confusing referral procedures and a lack of information can make treatment and support difficult to access.Read the report here
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Outcomes measures tools
The Care Services Improvement Partnership is developing a compendium of outcomes measures tools to improve the quality of mental health care and establish best practice.
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Healthcheck consultation launched
The Healthcare Commission is to consult on plans to drive a culture of safety through the NHS, using its annual assessments of NHS organisations to monitor rates of healthcare-acquired infection and compliance with the hygiene code.The proposals also include a stronger focus on clinical effectiveness and commissioning.Find out more here
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Health outcomes measurement in Southwark adult mental health services
South London and Maudsley NHS trust has found significant benefits from.using health of the nation and outcomes scales
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Commission to look at learning disabilities accusations
The Healthcare Commission has said it will review six cases highlighted by learning disability charity Mencap of people with learning disabilities who died from physical illnesses.Mencap has accused the NHS of institutional discrimination against people with learning disabilities, saying their physical health needs are ignored.Meanwhile the Department of Health has ...
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Nurses encouraged to complain over pay
Nurses have been encouraged to write to their MPs to complain about this year's pay settlement.The Royal College of Nursing is urging its members to point out to their MP that this year's pay deal will mean an effective pay cut for nurses, when the rate of inflation is taken ...
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'Psychiatric asbos' slammed
The Department of Health has published a report on the international experience of community treatment orders commissioned from the Institute of Psychiatry a year ago. But it has been greeted with outrage by pressure groups and the Conservatives who say the report shows 'psychiatric asbos' do not work and therefore ...
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Look to the long term for 2020 vision on climate change
With front-page headlines this week warning that the UK's policies on climate change are set to achieve their 2020 milestone 30 years too late, the scale of the environmental challenge ahead becomes yet more daunting.
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Global health strategy proposals launched
The need for a global health strategy in order to protect the health of the UK was outlined in a report by chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson.The CMO made the case for concerted action on global health and for developing a strategy that will benefit the health of ...
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Government to review Modernising Medical Careers
The Department of Health has announced a review into round one of Modernising Medical Careers recruitment and selection into specialist training, made through the medical training and application service. The move follows discussions with the medical Royal Colleges and the British Medical AssociationThe DoH said: 'It is clear that there ...
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Trusts warned over property maintenance
The Health and Safety Executive has warned the NHS to maintain its properties effectively. It follows a successful action brought by the organisation against South West London and St George's Mental Health trust after a man fell at Springfield University Hospital and subsequently died.The trust was fined £7,500 and asked ...
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Leaked mental health report condemned
A £16m race equality programme for mental health has had no impact whatsoever on improving ethnic inequalities, says the Black Mental Health UK campaign, whose members have seen a leaked government report.www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk
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NHS to become unaffordable, says think tank
The cost of technological advances in healthcare will make the NHS increasingly unaffordable, the think tank Reform says in a report today. It says that diseases like cancer will become much more manageable and will not necessarily be fatal, increasing costs.www.reform.co.uk
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Winterton slams Lords over mental health
The House of Lords has 'seriously weakened' the government's plans for better protection for patients and the public through its amendments to the Mental Health Bill, according to health minister Rosie Winterton.She told a conference that the Lords' amendments 'must be overturned'. They include the introduction of a treatability test ...
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Hewitt defends nurses' pay offer
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has said the 2007-08 pay deal for NHS staff and GPs is 'sensible' and 'fair'. Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a 1.5 per cent rise in April and 1 per cent more in November; hospital doctors a flat £1,000; junior doctors 3 per cent; ...
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Day of protest tomorrow
Over 40 protests against health service cuts, closures and marketisation will take place tomorrow as part of the national day of action being co-ordinated by NHS Together, the campaign alliance of NHS staff unions and associations.Read more here
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Foundation regulator calls for better preparation
Financial problems are the reason behind three-quarters of unsuccessful bids for foundation trust status, according to the regulator. Monitor chair Bill Moyes called for 'better preparation' by those going through the authorisation process.Foundation Trust Network director Sue Slipman said strategic health authorities needed to address the issue of trusts with ...
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Unity will unlock gateway to success
Sir Ian Carruthers' two-month review of England's reconfiguration proposals urges much greater co-ordination of effort - a more united front to replace a series of skirmishes.
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NICE publishes mental and sexual health guidelines
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published recommendations on mental health and on reducing transmission of sexually transmitted infections.The mental health guidance concerns problems during pregnancy and after giving birth. It also covers the care and treatment of women who already had a mental health problem before ...