All Mental health articles – Page 189
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Fall in psychiatric inpatient care suicides
Suicide in psychiatric inpatient care is becoming less common, according to research by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. The study looked at all patients admitted to inpatient psychiatric care in England between 1997 and 2003 and found ...
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Belfast to get extra mental health services
A dedicated self-harm team, four additional cognitive behavioural therapists and a primary care mental health team for young people are to begin work in the North and West Belfast trust area. The services are part of the area's action plan on renewing communities.
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Resource to improve primary mental health services launched
The Care Services Improvement Partnership has published a practical guide to was produced as part of the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE, now part of CSIP) primary care and commissioning programme and aims to offer best-practice guidance for improving primary care mental health services.
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Choice guidelines are 'mere principle'
New government guidelines on choice in mental health have been criticised by campaigners.
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'Shocking' experience of black service users uncovered
Black mental health patients report a far worse experience of hospital care than other ethnic groups, a survey has shown.
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LIFT-funded buildings pass 100 mark
The opening of three new health centres this week through the local improvement finance trust has pushed the NHS above the 100 mark in its LIFT-funded building programme.The 100th building to open was the £3m Longview Drive primary care centre in St Helens and was followed by two more in ...
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Massive investment needed in prison mental health services
Overcrowding in prisons is intensifying the mental health problems of huge numbers of prisoners. A report by the all-party parliamentary group on prison health has called for massive investment to provide a stepped care model of services, rapid improvement to the transfer system for patients who need to be taken ...
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Fear of stigma holding back people with mental health problems
Over 80 per cent of people with mental health problems have taken steps to minimise the risk of having negative reactions from others.A survey by Scottish anti stigma campaign See Me found that 78 per cent had actually experienced stigma or discrimination. The interim research was released to coincide with ...
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Crisis resolution teams should manage psychiatric admissions
Crisis resolution and home treatment teams should manage all admissions to psychiatric wards and be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to a guide to the services published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.The teams will be unsuccessful unless they reduce the number and length ...
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Dave Lee on listening to complaints
The idea of a committee as an inherently good thing may be counter-intuitive. When Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Baroness Julia Neuberger decided in 1993 that the community trust she was chairing should have a customer services committee, there were no bets on its longevity.
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More choice for mental health service users
Mental health service users will have powers to chose their own path through services and retain more control over their lives and the treatments they receive under new guidance, Our Choices in Mental Health, published today by the Department of Health.www.mhchoice.org.uk
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MPs ask how users can shape public services
The House of Commons public administration select committee has launched a new inquiry into the role that 'customers' or 'users' should have in helping shape public services. Key questions include the possibility of setting minimum standards for services and how consultations manage to capture the views of the right people.Find ...
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Health sector has worst staff illness
The health and social care sector accounted for the highest number of self-reported, work-related illness per 100,000 people in 2005-06, according to the Health and Safety Commission's Health and safety statistics for 2005-06.The report said there were 4,100 self-reported work-related illnesses per 100,000 people involved in health and social work, ...
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Nicholson to give evidence to spending enquiry
NHS chief executive David Nicholson, acting permanent secretary Hugh Taylor and finance director Richard Douglas are to give evidence to the Commons health committee on 23 November as part of its inquiry into NHS expenditure. Health secretary Patricia Hewitt will face the committee on 29 November.
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Granger tops NHS earners list
The average salary of the 12 highest earners in the NHS is £183,000, according to an analysis of senior executives' pay in the public sector for 2004-05.The figures from the Taxpayers' Alliance show the top two NHS earners are Connecting for Health chief executive Richard Granger, with a £285,000 salary, ...
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Select committee to investigate patient involvement
The Commons health select committee is to carry out an inquiry into public and patient involvement early next year. Although the terms of reference will not be announced until after the Queen's Speech on 15 November, the committee said it intends to consider issues such as the powers and make-up ...
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Patients allowed to opt out of care records service
Patients will have the right to opt out of having their information shared through the NHS care records service, health minister Lord Warner told HSJ's Demystifying the National Programme for IT conference yesterday.Under the government implied consent model, those who do not opt out will be deemed to have given ...
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Doncaster therapy pilot sees 1,000 clients
A pilot scheme in Doncaster to improve access to talking therapies for people with mental health problems has seen 1,000 clients in its first three months. The scheme is one of two pilots designed to help people with mild to moderate depression to get back into work and off incapacity ...
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Suicide rate continues to fall
Suicide rates in England have continued to fall and are now at their lowest ever level, according to new figures.The three-year average is now 8.5 deaths per 100,000, down from a baseline of 9.4 deaths per 100,000 in 1995.The Department of Health has published a new guide giving advice on ...
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