All Mental health articles – Page 78
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NewsExclusive: Mental health services get £18m winter boost to support A&E
Mental health services are to be handed nearly £20m of the new £335m winter resilience funding to help take the pressure off beleaguered accident and emergency departments, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentMental health is a bigger driver of cost than chronic illnesses
We tend to underplay the massive impact of mental illnesses but by identifying patients with high demand and costs we can target care to improve outcomes. By Scott Bentley and Ben Richardson
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NewsMental health trusts could be put in 'impossible position' by rule changes
Changes to the rules governing the detention of mental health patients in police cells could put trusts in an “impossible position” if there are not enough resources to improve access to hospital care, leading sector figures have warned.
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HSJ LocalMerger of three trusts paused by NHS Improvement
A merger of three trusts in the West Midlands has been put on hold by NHS Improvement.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The fear, the network and the path
Why does a safety-critical industry such as the NHS have the level of bullying and fear running through it at so many levels, asks Andy Cowper
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Ministers pledge an extra £300m for CAMHS
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Feedback and comments are welcome, so please feel free to email me in confidence.
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CommentCaring for carers is the right thing to do
Julia Jones tells how her campaign is committed to promoting a welcoming approach to care givers as a policy and in practice
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NHS England: Waiting targets will be missed without cuts to other services
NHS England has warned that elective waiting time standards “will not be fully funded and met” next year unless there are cuts to services such as mental health, cancer and primary care.
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NewsCQC flags up 'deep concerns' with independent rehab providers
People with drug and alcohol addiction are being put at risk of harm at many independent residential rehabilitation units, a new report has warned.
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HSJ LocalSpecial measures FT to buddy with outstanding trust
A struggling foundation trust that was put back into special measures less than a year after exiting them has been assigned an outstanding rated buddy trust.
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CommentThe budget was more positive than expected
Overall for the NHS, this Budget was much better than feared but not nearly as good as it needed to be. By Anita Charlesworth, John Appleby and Siva Anandaciva
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NewsHSJ chief executive of the year revealed
The leader of a mental health and community services trust has been named chief executive of the year at the 2017 HSJ Awards.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: International Health Partnership
Sponsored by NHS Employers Sponsored by THET The Butabika-East London Link: Partnership for Excellence This non-profit organisation developed the Butabika-East London Link partnership to improve the provision of mental health services in Uganda and the UK. The service users were trained and empowered to ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Most effective adoption and diffusion of existing best practice
Integrated Care Exeter Strategic Alliance: Integrated Care Exeter Wellbeing Exeter The team developed a programme to enhance the health and wellbeing of people by engaging them with their community and empowering people to self manage. Fifty four per cent of people involved in the programme showed improved mental health, ...
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health pleads guilty to third prosecution
Southern Health has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law after a patient died while in the trust’s care.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Getting tough on 'indefensible practice'
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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HSJ LocalOutstanding trust wins five year £195m contract outside patch
One of the country’s leading mental health trusts has won a £195m contract to provide community health services in Bedfordshire.
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CommentThree tests this budget needs to pass to reverse the impact of the NHS funding gap
Chris Askew asks whether the budget will reverse the decline of access to timely and good quality healthcare
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A Budget for putting politics above prosperity
We’re approaching a moment when a government that has been warned that the NHS funding situation will threaten quality, access and safety is going to choose to ignore that warning, says Andy Cowper in the runup to the Budget
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HSJ LocalTrust defies CQC order to change weapons search policy
A large mental health trust is resisting a requirement from the Care Quality Commission to drop blanket patient searches as it would put people at risk from knife crime.