Sean Duggan
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Commissioning board must safeguard the future of secure care services
The Commissioning Board takes over responsibility for specialised services in April 2013 and needs to focus on designing a system without the blockage problems of today if it is to commissioning secure care successfully.
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On the road to Recovery
The government made Recovery the mental health strategy’s defining goal in February - which gives mental health service providers to do something truly radical, says Sean Duggan.
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Integrating mental health and substance misuse services
While there has long been a link between mental health problems and drugs and/or alcohol abuse, providing services for this group should be better integrated if outcomes are to improve.
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Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
Better managment of care for people with both physical and mental health conditions would improve lives and save the NHS billions of pounds.
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The funding must be available to help achieve public health outcomes
The recently announced Public Health Outcomes Framework sets an effective set of measurements for performance - but if the resources aren’t there to achieve them, many services will step back from this opportunity for a step change in mental healthcare.
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