Mental Health – Page 153
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison mental healthcare: pushing up standards
Access to mental healthcare remains an obstacle for prisoners. The solution, say Andrew Forrester and colleagues, is a dedicated, unitary 'prisoner care trust' for commissioning
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News
Statistics lay bare inequalities in mental healthcare
The most comprehensive set of data ever collated on hospital and community mental health services has revealed stark variations in the levels of care being offered to different sections of the population.
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Comment
Mike Hobbs on clinical leadership and mental health
Mental health strategy has historically been seen as separate from mainstream health strategy and planning.
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Comment
David Lee on delayed transfers of care
If you have mentioned delayed transfers of care in an unguarded manner to a mental health foundation trust director recently, you might have been struck by a sudden and sharp temperature drop in the room.
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HSJ Knowledge
Deprivation of liberty - know the law
Primary care trusts need to be aware of new safeguards designed to protect patients being deprived of their liberty. Stephen Evans explains PCTs' duties
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News
NHS Wales chief to step down to focus on 26-week target
The chief executive of NHS Wales is to stand down and focus on the country's 26-week referral to treatment target, which organisations are struggling to meet.
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Monitor attempts to keep DH 'at bay'
Monitor and the Department of Health could be heading for another tussle over central direction versus local freedoms.
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Comment
Charles Kaye and Michael Howlett on mental health in the slow lane
A number of high-profile news items about mental health have hit the headlines recently.
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News
Concerns over delays to mental health advocacy service
The government is failing to put in place mental health advocates to provide important support and protection to patients, charity Mind has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS next stage review: the whole package
World class commissioning will be a major driver in improving healthcare quality, by embedding it in the DNA of services
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Foundation trusts told to be 'pessimistic' about finances
Foundation trusts have been advised to make 'pessimistic assumptions' about the future of their finances.Bill Moyes, executive chairman of the foundation trust regulator Monitor, used the publication of the annual review of foundations to advise: 'My message to foundations would be to make pessimistic assumptions in order to be prepared ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Police custody and the Mental Health Act
When members of the public are detained under the Mental Health Act, they are often taken to police custody, but this can exacerbate mental health problems. Ian Bynoe explains
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CommentAngela Greatley on the Mental Health Act
From 3 November, most parts of the long-awaited and often feared 2007 Mental Health Act will be implemented. For the NHS, the new act presents major challenges by extending the scope of compulsory powers and by creating some new safeguards for those subject to them.
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South Essex Partnership foundation trust secures university status
A mental health trust has fought ‘discrimination’ to become the first community-based NHS organisation to gain university trust status.
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Back to work plans could penalise mental health patients
A leading mental health campaigner has dismissed proposed reforms which aim to get a million people back into work as too harsh.
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National NHS pay deal criticised
Nationally negotiated pay means commissioners' hands are tied from using bigger salaries to attract more good doctors, the Commons health select committee was told last week.
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Manchester mental health chief launches dismissal claim
A trust chief executive who triggered weeks of strike action after sacking a trade union official has launched an unfair dismissal claim.Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust's former chief Sheila Foley resigned in July, the day after a report, commissioned by NHS North West, criticised frequent changes of management ...
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Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme
The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.
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Welsh NHS watchdog orders protocol review after murder
The NHS watchdog in Wales is calling on mental health service managers to review protocols for helping people with personality disorders, following a murder by a patient.
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Johnson keeps the faith on inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson says the life expectancy gap is closing and he is promising the end of GP shortages. There is more to do but this is no time for a 'counsel of despair', he tells Rebecca Evans