Mental Health – Page 96
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CommentJeremy Taylor: Mobilising volunteers to help patients
Mobilising volunteers to support patients will become easy if we leverage people’s innate desire to help others, writes Jeremy Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeShared Lives – empowering people to lead healthy lives
The power of mobilising people to improve health and care
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NewsExclusive: NHS England considering cuts to national clinical directors
NHS England is considering cutting the number of national clinical directors, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentThe worrying truth about mental health services
Lack of money is frequently highlighted as a key barrier to providing high quality care in mental health
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NewsRollout of shared care records can cut DTOCs, commission says
Commission calls for the DH to assess the cost of national living wage for social care sector There is an “urgent need” for delayed transfer definitions for mental health Payment mechanisms should be “coordinated” and block contract payments should be dropped Delayed transfers of care can be avoided ...
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CommentWhy recovery in mental health is so important
Helping people with serious mental health problems back to leading normal lives is possible and crucial, says Lisa Rodrigues
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HSJ LocalCalderstones chief: brand was tarnished but we're not like Winterbourne View
INTERVIEW: The Calderstones Hospital ‘brand’ was so damaged that its closure became inevitable, its chief executive has conceded.
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CommentMental health taskforce: why we must manage our expectations to protect our wellbeing
Managing expectations to protect our wellbeing
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NewsNHS England to review staff training after mental health homicides
NHS England is reviewing the quality of training for staff who assess the root causes of homicides by mental health patients.
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NewsExclusive: Majority of A&E departments fail liaison psychiatry standards
Almost three-quarters of England’s liaison psychiatry services in hospital emergency departments are rated substandard, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local'Unviable' mental health trust to axe services
A mental health trust in Manchester has announced several service closures due to ‘year on year reductions’ to its budget.
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News£75m fund to close learning disability hospital beds
Plans to close up to half of inpatient beds for people with learning disabilities following the Winterbourne View scandal have been announced by the NHS and local government bodies.
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: Hunt promises new 'Ofsted style ratings' for CCGs
Ofsted style ratings are to be given to each area of the country for performance in a range of clinical areas including cancer, dementia and mental health, Jeremy Hunt will announce today at HSJ’s annual lecture.
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HSJ LocalLondon CCGs could form federation to redesign acute and mental health services
STRUCTURE: Five clinical commissioning groups in North London could form a federation to redesign acute, mental health and primary care services.
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NewsFewer mental health patients seen in community despite rising demand
Community based mental health services are seeing fewer mental health patients despite a rise in demand and more people are being detained under the Mental Health Act.
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HSJ LocalMental health chief Steven Michael to retire
Steven Michael, chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust, has announced he will retire at the end of March next year.
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NewsMonitor moves to mandate new mental health payment systems
Mental health providers could be required to adopt new payment systems from April next year, in a bid by Monitor to finally move the sector away from block contract funding.
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HSJ LocalNorth East bosses seek to move patients back to York following hospital closure
Mental health services in York have transferred to a new provider as planned, after the sudden closure of a psychiatric hospital threatened to delay the process.
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NewsClinicians raise concerns over IAPT as trusts set out merger drivers
Clinicians in Essex are worried about commissioners’ plans to send patients previously referred to secondary mental health professionals to a less specialised service, the chief executive of one of the trusts involved has told HSJ.