Mental Health – Page 71
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NewsCarter: Integrated acute and community trusts are more efficient
EXCLUSIVE: NHS productivity tsar Lord Carter has said integration of acute and community trusts would improve efficiency.
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HSJ InteractiveServing people with dementia, carers and families
Alison Moore reports on the award winning young onset dementia service that’s improving lives for both patients and their families
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NewsCare standards will fall this year warns CQC boss
The Care Quality Commission has assumed standards in the health and social care sectors could deteriorate in 2018-19.
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CommentCommunity services – the glue in the system
Georgia Butterworth argues that we need to recognise and build on the massive untapped opportunities presented by strengthening community services
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HSJ LocalHSE investigates patient death as trust admits failings
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating the death of a patient who absconded from a mental health unit and was then killed by an apparent stranger.
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HSJ LocalNew ward to eliminate mental health trust out of area placements
A mental health trust in a rural location has opened 15 rehabilitation beds to implement a “unique” model of care which it says will eliminate the need for inappropriate out of n area placements.
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NewsPrivate hospital group criticised for governance failures
A private hospital group has been told it must improve its corporate governance after a number of its sites were criticised in a leadership review by the Care Quality Commission.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Trusts without borders
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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HSJ InteractivePrivate sector investment has a role to play
CHP’s NHS LIFT programme demonstrates that public-private partnerships can support the local transformation of care and is an investment option that remains relevant and available now
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NewsExclusive: Waiting times targets removed from NHS England guidance
Waiting time targets for treating new and expecting mothers with serious mental health problems were scrapped and removed from new national guidance, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsBill to protect staff from assault 'sends message' to employers, says MP
The bill to protect healthcare and emergency services workers from assault will “send a message to employers” to take incidents more seriously, one of the MPs behind it has told HSJ.
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NewsUpdated: Minister 'misinformed' over learning disability mortality report
The care minister has admitted misleading MPs over whether the Department of Health and Social Care was told a review into the deaths of people with learning disabilities was due to be published.
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CommentA single, unified voice for community services
Matthew Winn explains the aims of the newly established Community Network that includes the NHS and not for profit organisations providing community health services
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HSJ LocalPatient attack investigation deadline extended
NHS England has been given more time to submit an independent investigation into the killing of two men by another patient on a hospital ward.
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NewsCygnet mental health hospital makes 'significant improvements'
A private children’s and adolescent mental health unit that was heavily criticised by the Care Quality Commission has been praised for making “significant improvements.”
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HSJ LocalTrust sells two sites to housing quango in £20m deal
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust has completed a £20m sale of two of its sites to a housing quango, which plans to build 326 new homes on the land.
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NewsRegulator orders review of community team caseloads
A mental health trust has been ordered to carry out an immediate review of community team caseloads after concerns about “ongoing risks” to patients.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: How to spend it best: theft, teaching and toxin-taming
Andy Cowper discusses three themes of theft, teaching and toxin-taming that should inform the NHS turnaround strategy
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CommentIncrease the provision of perinatal mental health services to train psychiatrists
We need each generation of perinatal psychiatrists to lead the development of the next and wider teams to be knowledgeable about the issues, risks and care of all women of childbearing potential, writes Dr Liz McDonald
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Escaping the twilight zone
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.