Mental Health – Page 107
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CommentGood luck with the new job, Simon. Here's your to-do list…
Experts outline the biggest issues facing the new NHS England chief
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NewsHunt safety plans 'will require frontline investment'
Providers will need to invest “significant” time in ensuring frontline staff can deliver the plans to improve patient safety which were announced by the health secretary last week, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health providers in dark over choice rules as deadline nears
The government has failed to issue guidance on the operation of a new legal right of choice for mental health patients, ahead of it coming into force next week.
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NewsMinister: Mental health trusts should 'fight' over contracts
A health minister has indicated mental health providers should “fight” contracts with commissioners in cases where they would be “losing out” due to the greater price reduction for the sector specified in controversial national guidance.
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NewsHunt to launch patient safety 'movement' to halve harm
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to use a major speech in the US today to launch a “patient safety movement” aimed at halving rates of avoidable harm in the NHS over the next three years.
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CommentCompassion and cost-effectiveness can work together
Compassion should be central to everything in the NHS
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NewsExclusive: More children who have self harmed on acute wards
A growing “hidden cohort” of children who have self-harmed are admitted to acute hospitals because of a lack of appropriate mental health services, according to a survey shared with HSJ.
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NewsConfed chief: NHS leaders must look 'beyond their own organisations'
Provider chief executives must be “system leaders” beyond their own organisations, the new chief executive of the NHS Confederation has told HSJ.
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CommentPersonal budgets and PbR offer integration stepping stones
How to transform mental health services
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HSJ Knowledge#Transformation2019: The key issues to tackle
Sue James looks at the transformation process ahead
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'More children' on adult wards
The number of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards or treated on them is rising, figures show.
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NewsMental health service cuts warning
A “lost generation” of young people could occur if key mental health services are not protected from funding cuts, charities have warned.
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NewsNicholson: CCGs 'encouraged' to protect mental health parity
Clinical commissioning groups have received guidance to “encourage and support” them to deliver parity of esteem for mental health services, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust 'implementing value based healthcare'
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has begun a programme to redesign its mental health services based on the concept of “value based healthcare”.
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NewsDuty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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HSJ KnowledgeA closer look at mental health's transformation
What acute care can learn about change from the sector
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CommentCommissioners must take the long view in neurological care
The funding of services requires vision