All Mental health articles – Page 115
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HSJ LocalLisa Rodrigues announces retirement
Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust, has told HSJ she plans to retire next year.
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NewsMiliband backs integrated health service
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party will seek to create an integrated healthcare system if it wins power in 2015.
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NewsLamb: Directors could face poor care prosecutions
Individual directors on the boards of healthcare providers will face the threat of criminal prosecution for neglect or abuse of patients, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsNew standards planned for mental health crisis care
The government will impose new standards on mental health providers to force them to improve crisis care for patients across the country, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsUPDATED: Monitor questions payment by results for mental health
The mandatory rollout of a national payment by results tariff for mental healthcare providers in 2014-15 has been dropped by Monitor, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMore help needed for mentally ill to quit smoking
Health boards are being urged to examine the support they offer to people with mental illness to help them quit smoking.
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NewsPersonal budgets mooted for mental health
Care minister Norman Lamb has said he would like to see mental health patients being given personal budgets to pay for care.
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NewsAusterity measures 'bad for nation's health'
The government has been urged to look more closely at the impact of austerity measures on the health of the nation before it pursues more cuts.
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NewsShare your views on mental and physical healthcare, locally and nationally
There is a general acknowledgement that the NHS should be a service of equal access, equal quality and equal resources.
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HSJ Knowledge'Modernisation' is not a dirty word
How to defeat the competing demands of modernisation on patient care
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NewsRevised negligence scheme 'will not lead to big price swings'
Plans to scrap discounts on clinical negligence premiums will not lead to “big swings in price”, the chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority has told HSJ.
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Blogs
Only in America?
A gunman with a psychiatric disorder took a school librarian hostage after his Medicaid cover an out.
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HSJ KnowledgeBridging the gap between research and clinical practice
A new role integrates research and care
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NewsCQC warned against hospital-centric regulation regime
Mental healthcare providers have warned the Care Quality Commission that they do not want their services to be “shoehorned” into a new regulatory regime that has been designed for acute hospitals.
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CommentMental health support is essential to crisis care
Urgent care services for physical and mental health are fragmented
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NewsHuge leap in number of bids to curb liberty
A record number of requests have been made by hospitals and care homes to deprive people of their liberty, figures show.
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HSJ KnowledgeA personal touch can improve dementia care
How a different approach can improve quality of life
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HSJ KnowledgeAn alternative look at resource allocation
A visual approach can engage stakeholders in the process
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NewsCarruthers joins board of private mental health group
Former NHS South of England chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers has joined the board of major private sector mental health provider Partnerships in Care.