All Mental health articles – Page 185

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Brent relapse prevention project

    2007-01-02T00:00:00Z

    An award-winning project aims to maintain the recovery of people with complex mental health needs who use other services

  • News

    2007 a make or break year for NHS, says think tank

    2007-01-02T00:00:00Z

    A failure to tackle rising costs and to invest in modern services means that 2007 is a make or break year for the NHS, according to a report by think tank Reform. The report says the service's long-term strength has been sapped by the lack of an underpinning costed reform ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    10 high-impact changes for service improvement and delivery

    2007-01-02T00:00:00Z

    'We sought evidence to show which areas realised the greatest benefit the 10 high-impact changes. We wanted to find out how these benefits changes might be measured in relation to the impact on service users and carers, staff and organisations, service delivery and social care outcomes'

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Sounding off

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With the incidence of mental illness among deaf people high and specialised services almost non-existent, getting help can be difficult. Emma Dent explores the gaps in care

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The safer sex

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Medium secure provision for women has been inadequate, but services tailored to their needs are now being provided. Emma Dent reports

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on powering reforms

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

  • Comment

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'

  • News

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.