Community mental health services are showing some improvement but concerns over access remain, according to a survey published today by the Healthcare Commission.
Results show that the relationships between service users and their psychiatrists continue to improve year on year. However, almost half of service users do not have access to out-of-hours crisis care and only 49 per cent of those who wanted help finding work were offered it.
The coming winter is likely to be even more difficult than the last due to system wide demand/capacity gap, but the NHS long term plan offers a ray of hope to enable service transformation, says Claire Helm
NHS trusts recruited a higher percentage of healthcare assistants than nurses over a two year period, new research has revealed.
NHS providers must submit a business case to show setting up a wholly owned subsidiary company yields value beyond VAT savings, under new proposals from NHS Improvement.
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