All Mental health articles – Page 193
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Mental health cash to target child services
Children's mental health services are to be earmarked for extra cash in the government's forthcoming mental health strategy, Department of Health officials confirmed last week.
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DoH promises £375m for child mental health
Children's mental health services are to be earmarked for extra cash in the government's forthcoming mental health strategy, Department of Health officials confirmed last week.
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Hopes hang on Hutton Mental health policy analysts ministerial changes with anxiety
As any senior civil servant will tell you, a change of minister can have a more drastic effect on a department than a change of government. So mental health policy analysts are holding their breath with the arrival of John Hutton to succeed Paul Boateng as junior health minister. Labour's ...
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Mental health groups
Mental health groups have moved to distance themselves from junior health minister Paul Boateng's announcement that a review of the Mental Health Act will mean forced medical treatment in the community.
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Pioneering integrated mental health services
With reference to Elizabeth Bayliss's letter (9 July), recommending that services should work jointly, we feel it important to point out that in Hackney we are almost unique in having had jointly provided mental health services for the past four years.
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A distressingly high number of people with mental health problems are struck off by GPs
Despite Steve Ainsworth's statistic of 'only one person per GP per year', there is a distressingly high incidence of people with mental health problems being removed from GPs' lists.
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Pledged change to mental health law held up until general election
Plans to overhaul the 1983 Mental Health Act may not be realised until after the next general election, key mental health groups say.
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Mental health law changes likely in capacity-to-consent grey area
Changes to mental health law and practice are likely to follow the judgment of the House of Lords in L v Bournewood Community and Mental Health trust, in which the law lords approved the practice of informally admitting apparently compliant patients who lack the capacity to consent.
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Mental health law changes likely in capacity-to-consent grey area
Changes to mental health law and practice are likely to follow the judgment of the House of Lords in L v Bournewood Community and Mental Health trust, in which the law lords approved the practice of informally admitting apparently compliant patients who lack the capacity to consent.
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Ministers double cash in sop to mental health policy critics
Ministers moved to head off further criticism of their controversial policy of ending care in the community this week by doubling the money on offer to create alternative services.
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Region rejects calls for inquiry into mental health deaths
Anglia and Oxford region has rejected a call for an independent inquiry into its handling of mental health services following a series of deaths blamed by campaigners on 'incompetence and mismanagement'.
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Ashworth set to join mainstream mental health service in wake of chief executive's departure
Ashworth special hospital is to be integrated further into mainstream NHS mental health services following the surprise departure last week of chief executive Hilary Hodge.
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Together we can share responsibility for mental health
To allow mental health services to be 'single parents', as Matt Muijen recommends (Community Spirit, 21 May), is to condemn service users to a continuation of the nightmare that is much of current mental health provision in the inner city: disconnected services, dispirited staff and a blame culture in the ...
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Boateng bows to mental health pressure groups
Junior health minister Paul Boateng has pledged to publish the government's long-awaited mental health strategy 'in the summer' after lobbying from mental health pressure groups across the policy spectrum.
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QUERIES: JOINT WORKING, PLANNING, MENTAL HEALTH
I have recently been given the opportunity to act as elderly day care liaison nurse between day care services from health and social services. The people I will be involved with are over 65 and have a diagnosis of dementia.
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PROOF THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING TO GRASS-ROOTS ON MENTAL HEALTH
The latest leaked mental health strategy continues to whet the appetite (News Focus, page 11, 30 April). Prioritising both intensive health-based services (assertive outreach and 24-hour nursed beds) and social care (supported housing, meaningful occupations) reflects a growing consensus on what a comprehensive locally based service should look like.