All articles by Emma Dent – Page 6
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Emma Dent gets diagnosed
A kind reader recently commented that this column reads as though I have spent hours on it. At least, I think they were being kind.
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Renewed efforts to set up national tariff
Mental health trusts are signing up to new payment by results pilots, although fears remain that a national system will not be implemented.
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Born under a bad sign
Perinatal depression is gaining a higher profile, with a drive to increase awareness and provide wider access to specialist provision. Emma Dent reports
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Emma Dent at the dentist
'Half an hour later I would emerge bleary-eyed, in pain and incapable of eating for days'
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Star quality
A rich variety of activities can help ease boredom for inpatients and lower aggression. Emma Dent reports on how the Star Wards scheme uses pastimes as therapy
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Mental health special feature: the big issues
From vulnerable women on mixed-sex wards to continued over-representation of BME groups, Mental Health Act Commission chief executive Chris Heginbotham has a lot on his plate. Emma Dent reports
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Mental Health Bill briefing
In 1998, then health secretary Frank Dobson announced the government’s intention to create new legislation to close ‘loopholes’ in the 1983 Mental Health Act. The announcement followed the conviction of personality-disordered Michael Stone in 1998 for the brutal murders of Lin and Megan Russell.
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Emma Dent gets wheels
'Traffic? If said reader is disturbed by the traffic in Lancaster they had better never come to HSJ towers, where it frequently feels like we are perched on the edge of the M1'
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Green shoots of recovery
In the last of our series on organisational turnaround, we peer through the breaks in the clouds around two once-troubled trusts
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Born under a bad sign
Perinatal depression is gaining a higher profile, with. a drive to increase awareness and provide wider access. to specialist provision. Emma Dent reports
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The safer sex
Medium secure provision for women has been inadequate, but services tailored to their needs are now being provided. Emma Dent reports
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Mental health is subsidising other trusts
Mental health trusts are being forced to subsidise other parts of the health economy, a report has warned.
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Emma Dent on the dreaded lurgy
I have written before about my non-scientfic diagnosis of this condition, where tired bodies succumb to bugs and germs. I think it might be a sign that I should take a holiday
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Appleby: acute trusts should be ashamed
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has said some acute trusts should be 'ashamed of themselves' for relying on mental health trusts to bail them out of financial trouble.