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SupplementsWhy the 3 Rs can cut hospital admissions
Integrating recovery, reablement and rehabilitation will be key to reducing readmissions
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NewsMental health patient recalls rise as community teams struggle
A dramatic rise in the number of people with serious mental illness being recalled to hospital has led to concern that community mental health teams are overstretched.
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NewsHospitals must help mental health tribunals run smoothly
Hospital managers must ensure staff know it is inappropriate to recommend lawyers to mental health patients who are appealing against detention under the Mental Health Act, the Care Quality Commission has urged.
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NewsMental health order use 'very worrying'
Concerns have been raised about how Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) forcing mental health patients to take their medication are being served and carried out.
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NewsRise in mental health detentions
The number of people being given compulsory treatment under the Mental Health Act rose by 3.5 per cent last year, data has revealed.
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Community nurses have 'serious concerns' about GP commissioning
The move to GP commissioning could exclude other clinicians from decision making while increased competition in the NHS will lead to cost cutting, reductions in quality and greater inequalities, according to the Queen’s Nursing Institute.
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NewsCQC 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.
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NewsCommunity treatment order fears confirmed
Fears that supervised community treatment orders would be disproportionately imposed on patients from ethnic minorities have proven to be founded.
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CommentAngela Greatley on the Mental Health Act
From 3 November, most parts of the long-awaited and often feared 2007 Mental Health Act will be implemented. For the NHS, the new act presents major challenges by extending the scope of compulsory powers and by creating some new safeguards for those subject to them.
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HSJ Knowledge
Community treatment orders: benefit or burden?
The introduction of community treatment orders will pose significant challenges to local service providers. Mark Barnett explains
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Care vs security in mental health services
Excitable media coverage means the public is in fear of mental health service users. Should a very low level of security be accepted or should the emphasis shift towards public safety? By Charlotte Santry
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HSJ Knowledge
Uproar over mental health advocacy services delay
Campaigners are frustrated by the delay to independent advocacy for mental health patients. Stuart Shepherd reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health: no-one wins in homicide blame game
Often inspired by media hysteria, inquiries into homicides by mentally ill people cost the NHS millions each year and produce little real change, says Christine Vize
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Mental health: PCTs to target potential offenders
Commissioners will work closely with neighbourhood police to keep the mentally ill out of jail, the government's director of prison health has announced.
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Legal briefing: why mental health reforms will create a dual regulatory system
Service providers need to prepare for with changing mental health legislation
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Comment
Michael White: parliamentary deadlock
'Parliament is deadlocked on serious issues that may end up in a 'ping pong' test of wills'
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Comment
Order in the house: will legislation strike the right balance?
The supervised community treatment order is the latest legislative tool aimed at tackling 'revolving door' patients. But does it go too far? Mark Gould hears the pros and cons