Mental Health – Page 148
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East of England trust offered up for merger
NHS organisations are being invited to bid to merge with a trust in the East of England.
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Severe personality disorders service consultation launched
The South East Coast, East of England, South Central and London regions are set to jointly launch a consultation on how to improve services for people with severe personality disorder.
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Foundation trust appoints new chief executive
Tom Cahill has been announced as the new chief executive of the Hertfordshire Partnership foundation trust.
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News'Distressing failures' in NHS care for people with learning disabilities
A report into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities has uncovered “significant and distressing” failures in services across health and social care.
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HSJ KnowledgeImprove dementia care through a pathway to early diagnosis
Launched in February, the National Dementia Strategy identifies 17 main objectives for improving the quality of services to people affected by the condition.
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NewsHealthcare Commission criticises older people's mental healthcare
Older people with mental health concerns are often denied the full range of services offered to the young
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HSJ KnowledgePhil Hope on the future of social care
Phil Hope, the care services minister, explains his plans to widen the social care agenda to include public mental health
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Learning disabilities services suffer from 'glaring inadequacies'
Improvements in the commissioning of learning disabilities services by councils and primary care trusts need to be quicker and more widespread, a report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection, Healthcare Commission and Mental Health Act Commission has found.
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New unit to oversee delivery of mental health policies
The National Institute for Mental Health in England is being scrapped and replaced with a new agency to oversee the implementation of mental health policies.
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Learning disabilities services miss local needs
Learning disabilities commissioners are failing to provide the leadership required to meet the needs of local populations, regulators have found.
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Angela Greatley on focusing on mental health
It has become an accepted fact among those of us who work in mental health that there is no health without mental health. But does the NHS think this way?Mental ill health is not just a hugely significant and costly burden on those who live with it. It is also ...
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Leader
Patient safety: the first step is saying you have a problem
One of the more delicate steps in encouraging a patient safety culture was taken last week, with the first trust by trust breakdown of safety incident reporting.
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NHS managers' pay turns red tops green with envy
Salary envy is coming to the NHS. As the recession decimates jobs, pension pots and pay rises in the private sector, newspapers are turning their cynical fire on the pay and perks of public sector managers.
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Leading NHS chiefs call for London trust mergers
Competition and collaboration rules should not stand in the way of hospital trust mergers and acquisitions, two major acute trust chief executives have argued.
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Trusts fail to act on mortality alerts
Some hospital trust boards are neglecting figures that may highlight serious care failings, leading to patient deaths, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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Exclusive: Data reveals wide variation in patient safety reporting
Trusts where patient safety incidents are most likely to cause deaths, and those with the highest and lowest reporting rates, are revealed for the first time in an exclusive HSJ analysis.
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Deadline falls on drawn out tariff wrangling
Commissioners and providers were still wrangling over the controversial HRG4 tariff just days before the 13 March deadline to complete negotiations expired.
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Health loses out under Treasury PFI package
Last week the Treasury announced plans to boost recession hit PFI schemes with public cash, which could leave the NHS billions of pounds out of pocket. Sally Gainsbury explains the impact on health projects
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NHS job losses set to continue
The director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory has warned that health service redundancies are likely to continue at their current rate of around 54 a month.
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Margaret Edwards quits SHA for central role
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber chief executive Margaret Edwards left her post suddenly last week to take on a new role driving efficiency across the NHS.