All Mental health articles – Page 194

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Dave Lee on listening to complaints

    2006-11-06T10:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    More choice for mental health service users

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-10-26T01:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    An online service tailored to your needs

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    This week, HSJgets personal. Today we have launched a new online service free to registered users of the website, designed to bring you the most relevant content direct to your desktop.

  • News

    New pay-off packages to reflect length of service

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    New redundancy and retirement packages based on length of service rather than age have been agreed by the Department of Health.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Major research initiative launched for policy makers and managers

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    The Health Foundation's five-year, £2.5m QQUIP research initiative to help healthcare policy makers, managers, clinicians, researchers and patient groups to better understand and make informed decisions about how to improve healthcare quality will go online next month.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Research shows how patient involvement can improve healthcare quality

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    Involve the patient for better health outcomes and efficiency. That's the strategy suggested by new research from the Health Foundation.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Out of harm's way: developing the PICU

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    Psychiatric intensive care units are meant to serve patients who are too ill for general inpatient treatment. Emma Dent investigates how they are developing their role in the absence of mandatory standards

  • News

    PbR 'fundamentally flawed' says coding chief

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    The current system of payment by results is 'fundamentally flawed and unacceptable' the head of the Professional Association of Clinical Coders warned last week.

  • News

    New regulations on mental capacity research

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    The government has responded to the consultation on the Mental Capacity Act draft regulations, governing people with impaired mental capacity and their involvement in research work.The response covers proposals for appointing a body to oversee research arrangements for people who previously gave consent, then subsequently lost the mental capacity to ...

  • News

    Call to scrap funding formula

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    The NHS funding formula is based on an untested scientific premise and should be scrapped, the chief economic advisor to the Department of Health was told last week.

  • Comment

    Efficiency indicators do not tell the story behind the numbers

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    The comprehensive spending review is no longer the distant event it once seemed - the coming financial squeeze makes a numbers game out of the next 18 months or so.

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    Efficiency savings costed at £2.2bn

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is to expand the number of productivity indicators on which trusts are compared as the first set of figures revealed the NHS could save £2.2bn a year if it improved its efficiency.