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         News NewsTrust admits failings after absconded girl’s deathA hospital trust faces a substantial fine after admitting staff failed to follow a teenage girl with mental health problems who absconded from a hospital ward and then killed herself. 
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         News NewsCQC prosecutes hospital over ‘avoidable harm’The Care Quality Commission is prosecuting a large hospital trust for allegedly exposing a patient to a “significant risk of avoidable harm” by failing to provide safe care and treatment. 
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         News News‘Troubling’ bid to curb checks for restricted patientsGovernment is making a legal bid to curb the need for health and care providers to get council sign-off and oversight when they admit and put restrictions on people with limited mental capacity. 
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         Comment CommentYoung people’s mental health will not be improved by the NHS aloneThe key to sustainable mental health services for the young lies in joined-up working that values community knowledge alongside clinical expertise, writes Sarah Holloway, Maudsley Charity CEO 
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         Expert Briefing Expert BriefingImPatient: Skills for patient leaders and other humansPatient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ... 
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         News NewsNHSE’s improvement teams axedNHS England’s elective, emergency care and mental health improvement support teams are being axed – and their staff and functions merged into the Getting it Right First Time programme, HSJ has learned. 
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         News NewsNHSE director steps down to chair care scandal trustAn NHS England national director is stepping down to become chair of a mental health trust at the centre of a public inquiry. 
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         News NewsTop 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’A trust ranked in the top 10 of the government’s new provider league table for the mental health and community sector has been served with a warning notice after a Care Quality Commission inspection found multiple breaches of regulations. 
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         News NewsChildren’s unit to close over staffing and CQC concernsA children’s mental health unit struggling with short staffing has been forced to close for several months, in the wake of a Care Quality Commission inspection. 
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         News NewsExclusive: Streeting orders probe of mental illness overdiagnosisThe health and social care secretary is to launch a review of the prevalence of mental illness and neurodivergence, with a particular focus on whether some conditions are being overdiagnosed, HSJ can reveal. 
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         News NewsNational director: More money required to tackle ‘significant waits’NHS England’s national director of learning disability and autism services has said more money is needed to tackle “significant” autism assessment waits. 
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         Expert Briefing Expert BriefingImPatient: What’s changed since Bob began his workPatient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ... 
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         News NewsMinisters need a mental health plan, says outgoing NHSE directorMental health and learning disability services are not being paid enough “strategic attention” by ministers, a departing NHS England board member and former nursing leader has told HSJ. 
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         News NewsNHSE now ‘treating us like grown-ups’ say leading trust CEOsA group of the country’s leading trust chief executives have praised the approach taken by the new NHS England leadership but have warned that unrealistic expectations about financial performance may sour the relationship. 
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         Leader LeaderWhy Claire Murdoch quitIt is to the former national director for mental health Claire Murdoch’s credit that she stuck with her role for more than a year under the current government. 
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         News NewsExclusive: NHSE director resigns, claiming politicians wanted ‘change at the top’Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health director for the last nine years, has today resigned “with immediate effect”. 
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         News NewsHalf of mental health and community trusts downgraded by NHSEA third of mental health trusts have been given the lowest score in NHS England’s new rating regime, marking a significant reappraisal of the sector’s performance compared to previous assessments. 
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         News News‘Concerning’ discrepancies in avoidable deaths revealedPeople with a learning disability from a non-white background are more likely to die from avoidable causes, a new report has found. 
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         News NewsGap in crisis services risks future deathsOnly 10 integrated care boards have set up a mental health crisis text service, leaving a “gap” in service provision that could risk future deaths, a coroner has warned. 
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         News NewsRevealed: The scale of the underspend in transformation fundingIntegrated care boards underspent funds meant to boost investment in prevention, learning disabilities, and primary care by more than £100m, new data shows. 
 
 
      












 
     
     
     
    