All Mental health articles – Page 133
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HSJ Knowledge
Steps to improve mental health productivity can ease the pressure on budgets
The productivity challenge facing the whole NHS may well hit hardest those services traditionally most vulnerable to funding cuts - but there is scope to cope, says King’s Fund senior researcher Chris Naylor.
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NewsConfed future in doubt following FT network split
The Foundation Trust Network’s decision to become an independent body has sparked fears over the future of the NHS Confederation.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe importance of administration, management and bureaucracy in healthcare
Examination of last month’s Health Bill has resulted in a renewed attack on NHS managers and the ‘back-office functions’ administration, management and bureaucracy. However, not only are these functions quite separate, they are all still essential, write John Carrier, Chair of NHS Camden, and professor Ian Kendall from the University ...
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BlogsEarly intervention is rightly at the heart of new mental health strategy
The government’s new approach to mental health strategy is particularly welcome in its focus on children’s services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Achieving better outcomes with learning disabilities services
Learning disabilities services that draw hard on funding can be better commissioned for improved quality at a lower cost. Rob Greig, chief executive of National Development Team for Inclusion, explains the approach.
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HSJ Local
'Brave' Brighton and Hove GPs to commission mental health first
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has said local GPs have mooted the idea they would like to take over the commissioning of mental health services.
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HSJ Local
Bedfordshire PCT approves new mental inpatient plans
STRUCTURE: Bedfordshire PCT has approved recommendations on how mental health inpatient services will be run by South Essex Partnership University FT (SEPT).
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NewsFoundation Trust Network to split from Confed
The Foundation Trust Network has decided to split from the NHS Confederation.
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HSJ Local
Councillors criticise NHS South Gloucestershire over bed cuts plan
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust reports that it has received negative press coverage over a planned reduction in hospital beds.
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HSJ Local
Teenagers placed in adult wards at Greater Manchester West Mental Health FT
PERFORMANCE: Twenty-six hospital bed days in adult psychiatric wards were occupied by patients aged 16 and 17 at Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust in quarter two.
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HSJ Local
On-call doctor investigated after Calderstones patient suffers Christmas day cardiac arrest
PERFORMANCE: The mental health foundation trust has launched an investigation into the actions of an on-call doctor after a patient in its Maplewood facility suffered cardiac arrest on Christmas day.
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HSJ Local
Bradford District pressured by social care overspend
FINANCE: A pooled budget funding gap and social care overspends are creating financial pressures for Bradford District Care Trust.
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HSJ Local
NHS North Yorkshire and York mental health services to go to local FTs
COMMERCIAL: The board of NHS North Yorkshire and York has been recommended to award contracts for its mental health services to a mental health trust and an acute trust.
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HSJ Local
Pennine care on the cusp of taking over Oldham community services
STRUCTURE: The foundation has completed its due diligence review of Oldham Community Health Services and brought the organisation under its auspices ‘in shadow form’ on 10 January.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria Partnership seeks to repatriate high-cost patients to local services
FINANCE: The mental health foundation trust is working with NHS Cumbria to find ways of ‘repatriating’ high-cost patients to local providers.
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HSJ Local
Hertfordshire joint commissioning board to be dissolved
STRUCTURE: Hertfordshire mental health FT has dissolved a board for joint commissioning with the local authority in light of the Liberating the NHS white paper
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HSJ Local
Dramatic rise in detentions at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough FT
PERFORMANCE: The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health FT rose by 270 per cent in 2009-10, according to figures released in January.
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership FT seeks to address high level of ligature incidents
PERFORMANCE: Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust’s key commissioner NHS Somerset reported to its December board that the mental health provider experienced a significant surge in deliberate patient self harm using ligatures between the first and second quarters of 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
Mersey Care performance declines, but remains on track for FTe application
PERFORMANCE: The mental health trust’s performance deteriorated in October, but remained within the limits required for its application for foundation trust-equivalent status, latest board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Last patient leaves Lincolnshire Partnership FT inpatient unit
STRUCTURE: The last patient has left one of the Lincolnshire mental health FT’s inpatient units, paving the way for its planned closure.