Mental Health – Page 122
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy physical health checks for mental health patients are vital to their wellbeing
Improving the provision of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness provides an opportunity to make a major difference to the health and wellbeing of this vulnerable group, write Drs Kallol Sain and Sweta Patil.
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Blogs
What will 2012 have in store for mental health?
Sean Duggan looks at the opportunities and challenges ahead for mental health.
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NewsGive doctors stronger assisted dying powers, report says
Doctors could be given powers allowing them to help terminally ill patients to die, a report said today.
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'Safe and secure housing is critical to the wellbeing of mental health patients'
Housing needs for patients with mental health need to be properly addressed in order to improve mental health services and individuals’ health.
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NewsCost of rising emergency dementia admissions revealed
There has been a 12 per cent growth over five years in the number of people with dementia admitted to hospital as an emergency, according to a report exclusively shared with HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow specialist housing can improve the lives of older patients while cutting care costs
Specialist housing is an investment that could save the NHS millions a year and make lives happier, says Jeremy Porteus
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NewsExclusive: Lansley to step up push on variation as second NHS atlas published
Huge regional disparities in the quality of healthcare are due to be revealed by the second NHS Atlas of Variation, and a series of additional government analyses.
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SupplementsMaking progress in mental health policy and practice - an HSJ supplement
This week’s HSJ supplement in association with Lloyds Pharmacy looks at how a new direction for mental health strategy must take this opportunity to improve outcomes for patients with mental health issues.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow integrated care can improve outcomes for mental health patients
A mental health crisis scheme in Tower Hamlets is an example of how a positive partnership between a former PCT, a health trust and a housing provider can result in improved health outcomes for people with mental health needs. Chris Hampson explains.
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NewsCommissioners require 'significant help' with mental health tariff
Commissioners will struggle to implement an operating framework requirement to pay for mental health services under tariff without “significant help”, according to the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.
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NewsNHS given another year to reduce use of 'killer' drugs
The NHS has been given an extra 16 months to hit a target to prescribe fewer antipsychotic drugs which are said by health minister Paul Burstow to “kill” dementia patients.
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NewsDown's syndrome patient died after being wrongly detained in hospital
A patient with Down’s Syndrome had his basic human rights ignored after he was detained in hospital and then kept locked up before he died, an investigation has found.
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Blogs
The pressing case for linking physical and mental health
The link between physical and mental health is one all too often missed. But the example set by an acute hospital in Birmingham that has invested in high quality liaison psychiatry shows that integrating physical and mental health services has efficiency and financial benefits waiting to be discovered.
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HSJ Knowledge
How a rapid cycle innovation model helps develop better digital healthcare solutions
A new web application aimed at helping people with depression was born out of a unique “incubation” process of innovation that allowed ongoing testing, feedback and new directions to lead to the right solution. Adil Abrar explains how this innovation model can work in the NHS.
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NewsMental health tariffs 'not fit for purpose' - NHS Confederation
Mental health trusts and commissioners have not made enough progress in devising a tariff for their services despite enthusiasm from staff, the NHS Confederation has found.
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NewsClusters ordered to begin stocktake of 75,000 service contracts
Primary care trust clusters will have to complete a detailed stocktake of their 75,000 service contracts by the end of March 2012, in preparation for transferring them to successor commissioning bodies the following year.
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NewsFTN fails to appoint new chief executive
Sue Slipman has agreed to stay on as Foundation Trust Network chief executive until the organisation finds a new full-time replacement.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve care standards for dementia patients
Plenty of information and well designed bays help patients with dementia cope. Alistair Burns explains how.
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Blogs
Dancing with the devil? Exorcism in the NHS
A blog about the revelation that the NHS uses exorcism as an alternative form of treatment for some mental health patients.
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NewsCommunity care failing the vunerable, report claims
Community care has failed the most vulnerable members of society and ‘urgently’ needs reforming, a think tank has concluded.