All Mental health articles – Page 162
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health: tackling suicide among young people
Suicide is the second most common cause of death among young men, after accidents. Government and voluntary initiatives are working to cut rates, but sensationalised coverage needs to be reined in, finds Mark Gould
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on how it feels to become a foundation trust
Working for foundation status is like growing up - you learn from personal experience
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News
Guidance omits time limit on inquiries into patient killings
Concerns over time it takes for health organisations to investigate fatal attacks by mental health patients have not been addressed in the first detailed guidance on the subject.
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News
Prison drugs care 'below 'standard'
A think tank has criticised prison drug services for falling short of 'even minimum standards' and called on the government to take action.
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HSJ Knowledge
High-impact changes in health and social care
In the green paper Independence, Well-Being and Choice and the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, the government focused on seven positive outcomes for people using health and social care services.
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HSJ Knowledge
High-impact changes for health and social care: dignity and respect
This high-impact change sets out to improve the skills, confidence and capability of staff to develop personalised plans with service users and their carers.
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HSJ Knowledge
High-impact changes for health and social care: personalised services
This high-impact change sets out to put service users at the centre of service design and delivery, to give people control over their care, and to provide the framework in which people can direct their own support.
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HSJ Knowledge
High-impact changes for health and social care: effective commissioning
This high-impact change sets out to promote commissioning services that are flexible and responsive to people's needs and wishes.
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News
No probes into London mental health killings
NHS managers who failed to investigate nearly half of the murders and manslaughters carried out by London mental health patients over a four-year period will not be held to account.
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HSJ Knowledge
Funding the work of clinician scientists
Health Foundation fellowships offer clinician scientists the chance to carry out long-term studies into major areas of importance. We look at one project
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News
Placebos 'as effective as antidepressants'
Antidepressants are only moderately more effective than placebos for mild depression, according to research carried out at Hull University.The research, published in the Public Library of Science Journal, said that when unpublished clinical trial data was included, their benefit fell below accepted levels.
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News
£170m to be invested in talking therapies
£170m is to be invested in a training programme for 3,600 psychological therapists and to increase access to low and high-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy.
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News
Fraud charges
Two former directors of a private hospital group have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the NHS.The move by Norfolk police follows an investigation lasting more than a year into financial irregularities at Cawston Park Hospital, one of three psychiatric hospitals run by Chancellor Care. The NHS Counter Fraud and ...
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News
Plea over post-natal depression support
More clarity is needed on which health professionals are responsible for detecting and managing post-natal depression, says research in this month's British Journal of General Practice.
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News
Mental health charities make constitution plea
A group of mental health charities has sent a joint letter to health secretary Alan Johnson calling on the government to recognise mental health in any potential NHS constitution.It is signed by the chief executives of four major charities and the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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News
Violence increases but training in restraint techniques is still on hold
Urgent proposals for dealing with violent patients are still awaiting government funding 10 years after the death that sparked them.HSJ has discovered that a national training scheme for staff in acute mental health wards has been on hold for years, despite fresh evidence of increasing violent behaviour.
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News
Training cuts could stifle talking therapy
A government pledge to make 'talking therapies' more available is being jeopardised by higher education funding cuts, training providers have claimed.
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Comment
Find the funds to keep violence in check
Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.
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News
Half of mental health nurses assaulted, audit reveals
More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically assaulted at work, according to an audit of violence in mental health services published today.The audit - the second national assessment of its kind - covered more than 200 NHS and independent mental health units and was carried ...
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Call for regular GP evaluations of dementia patients
The Registered Nursing Home Association has told MPs it wants to see more systematic assessments of dementia patients by GPs.