All Mental health articles – Page 189
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£100m to help increase NHS energy efficiency
Health minister Andy Burnham has announced £100m funding to help NHS trusts meet their energy efficiency targets. Seven out of 10 are already on track, he said, but more should be done to reduce carbon emissions and deliver savings that will be ploughed back into patient care.For more information click ...
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Plans for consultants 'absurd', says BMA
British Medical Association consultants committee chair Dr Jonathan Fielden has criticised the Department of Health’s draft pay and workforce documents, revealed in HSJtoday. He said: ‘It is absurd to suggest that the NHS in England needs fewer hospital consultants. ‘To suggest that there should be fewer consultants, and of a ...
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Stomach pain tops Christmas complaints
Stomach and jaw pain dominated calls to telephone helpline NHS Direct over Christmas, statistics show.Vomiting, toothache and diarrhoea were also among the top 10 reasons for calling the helpline in England.Over the whole of 2006 the service received around 7 million calls, while during the Christmas period there were a ...
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Sir Liam demands faster progress on safety
Chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson has called for more speed in improving patient safety in his newsletter published today.Although Sir Liam praised a 'greater awareness among clinicians, managers and policymakers that patients are not as safe as they should be', he said that the pace of change had ...
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HSJ Knowledge
10 high-impact changes for service improvement and delivery
'We sought evidence to show which areas realised the greatest benefit the 10 high-impact changes. We wanted to find out how these benefits changes might be measured in relation to the impact on service users and carers, staff and organisations, service delivery and social care outcomes'
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2007 a make or break year for NHS, says think tank
A failure to tackle rising costs and to invest in modern services means that 2007 is a make or break year for the NHS, according to a report by think tank Reform. The report says the service's long-term strength has been sapped by the lack of an underpinning costed reform ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Brent relapse prevention project
An award-winning project aims to maintain the recovery of people with complex mental health needs who use other services
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: medical care for prisoners
The challenges faced by primary care trusts in delivering health services to prisoners have been seriously underestimated, says David Lock
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HSJ Knowledge
South Tyneside urgent care team
The South Tyneside urgent care team is a multidisciplinary team that provides intensive therapeutic interventions to people who have a substantial or critical level of mental health need. It was highly commended in the high-impact changes for mental health Positive Practice Award 2006.
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HSJ Knowledge
Early intervention in psychosis team
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster's early intervention in psychosis team has a range of help available over a three-year period for clients aged 14 to 35 who have experienced an episode of psychosis.
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Health figures honoured
Christie Hospital trust chair Joan Higgins has been made a DBE in the New Year Honours list. NHS Confederation chair Peter Mount, former Greater Manchester strategic health authority chief executive Neil Goodwin, Royal College of Nursing president Roswyn Hakesley-Brown and health economist Anne Mills have been made CBEs.To see the ...
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Comment
Barometer - Mental health April 07
With the start of the new financial year comes a new record in this Barometer survey of mental health chief executives. The highest result has been recorded, with a confidence score of 9.47 for achieving break even by the end of the financial year.
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With European law and the emphasis on work-life balance already shaking things up, what does the future hold for medical education? Three experts predict the shape of things to come
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£30m available to boost women's ward safety
Up to £30m is to be spent this financial year on single-sex facilities for mental health wards to improve women's safety, mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has promised.
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Mental health charities warn that £2m therapy cash is not enough
A £2m boost for talking therapies will not reach enough people across England, mental health charities have warned.
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Comment
HSJ Barometer: mental health December 2006
Mental health chief executives are increasingly confident this month that they will achieve financial balance.
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Barometer: mental health September 2006
Mental health chief executives surveyed for Barometer report high levels of confidence on recruitment of medical, nursing and therapy staff.
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Barometer: Public Health April 2007
While confidence in sexual health services has continued its rise in the latest Barometer survey of public health directors, the most significant increase for April is public health funding for 2007-08, with the overall number up from 3.85 to 4.85 out of 10.
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Barometer: mental health, February 2007
With the end of the financial year looming, chief executives of mental health providers are very confident this month that they will end the year in financial balance. A score of 9.26 is the highest ever recorded for this measure and the highest score of this barometer.