Dementia funding being diverted
Health trusts are spending money intended for dementia on other things, an MPs’ report has said.
Mental health trusts best at patient involvement
Mental health trusts have made the greatest efforts to reflect patients’ views in the precursors to formal quality accounts, the Foundation Trust Network has found.
Listening NHS chiefs boost ratings
Trust boards led by chiefs who are not too autocratic and who encourage contributions from non-executives and clinicians perform better in annual health checks, research has revealed.
CQC fears over mental health safeguards
The Care Quality Commission is looking for urgent “levers” to strengthen legal safeguards it fears are failing to protect vulnerable mental health patients.
Only two trusts miss CQC application deadline
All but two trusts submitted their Care Quality Commission registration applications on time, the regulator has told HSJ.
Call to address £23bn cost of dementia
Dementia costs the country £23bn a year - more than cancer and heart disease combined - but receives a fraction of the funding, according to a “wake up call” report.
Leaked FTN document: no job guarantees for foundation trust staff
Staff working for foundation trusts are at risk of compulsory redundancy because of the impending public sector spending squeeze, a leaked report suggests.
Mental health chief says departure not linked to trust deaths
A departing chief executive has insisted her move is unrelated to a police investigation into four apparent suicides at the mental health trust she has run for nine years.
DH names older people's and dementia tsars
Professor Alistair Burns and Professor David Oliver have been appointed to new directorships in the Department of Health, it has been announced.
Police probes deaths at mental health trust as chief exec announces departure
Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of four patients who were under the care of a Sussex mental health trust.
CQC calls in high ranking fixer for ‘chaotic’ trust registration process
NHS East of England chief executive Sir Neil McKay has been brought in to “challenge” the Care Quality Commission as it prepares to register every trust by 1 April.
Personal health plans for injured soldiers
Improved NHS mental health services for soldiers returning from Afghanistan was one of the plans announced by the government in a bid to provide better care for war veterans.
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Combat Stress charity in mental health trust tie-up
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NHS South East improves on race equality
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Demand for veterans PTSD service on the rise
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Call for NHS role in child detention care
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No funds promised with New Horizons mental health strategy
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Personal health budgets under fire
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HSJ exclusive: NHS to take responsibility for social care
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Mental health co-ordinators to be based in jobcentres
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Secure service referrals surge as prisons overfill
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DH accepts full staff health and wellbeing recommendations
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Hospital group goes into administration following fraud trial
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Andy Burnham welcomes staff sickness report
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Children's mental health provision criticised
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Marriage counselling to be offered as part of talking therapies scheme
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Equality lead lodges discrimination claim
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Property and competition to be investigated following takeover
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Poor dementia care 'costs NHS millions'
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Dementia drugs warning
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