All articles by Laura Donnelly – Page 10
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Audit reveals uneven services for children
Spending on mental health services for children and adolescents varies seven-fold across England and Wales, according to an Audit Commission report that finds 'little relation' between spending and need.
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Troubled mental health trust to lose three of its top executives
A mental health trust which came under fire for poor conditions and a 'lack of financial control' is to lose half its executive directors.
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Balancing act
Campaigners are launching a CD-ROM and website to help the media provide more balanced coverage of mental health issues. Laura Donnelly reports
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2000 throws up PR nightmares
Tales of millennium revellers 'vomiting to death' make 'bad PR', a year 2000 communications workshop heard last week.
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Experts dub personality disorder imprisonment proposals 'flawed'
Proposals to lock up 'dangerous people with severe personality disorder' indefinitely are 'fundamentally flawed', according to mental health experts.
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Twinned with Byzantium
Real results may be some time coming for Plymouth health action zone, despite copious sub-committees. Laura Donnelly continues our occasional series
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'People power' halts PFI projects
Local campaign groups have claimed that the failure of two major hospital projects to win private finance initiative approval as a victory for 'people power'.
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Mental health experts greet merger plans with scepticism
Guidance fleshing out plans to merge Britain's high-security hospitals with NHS trusts will do little to tackle 'entrenched problems' of recruitment, size and morale, according to mental health experts.
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Trial and error
The methods for best caring for people with severe mental illness are in the dock, but the evidence on assertive outreach and personality disorder is sadly lacking, reports Laura Donnelly
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DoH floats suspensions time limit
The government's review of consultant suspensions is considering proposals for a 12-month limit to control the 'inordinate amount of time' devoted to some cases.