All Mental health articles – Page 29
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Community Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Lancashire & South Cumbria FT: The Autism Outreach Team - Supporting Autistic Adults at Risk of Admission to Mental Health Inpatient and Specialist Hospital Settings
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Primary Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER Lancashire & South Cumbria FT: Delivering a Mental Health Prevention and Promotion Service
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CommentHow co-production can keep up with the rapid pace of system change
Co-production is undoubtedly vital to the future of mental health services, but the challenge we face now is how to ensure that co-production and efforts to address systemic inequalities can keep pace with the rapid pace of system change, writes Sam Holmes
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NewsCuts would cause ‘significant damage’, warns departing mental health leader
Slashing mental health funding when 9.6 million people are either waiting for treatment or at risk of developing more serious problems would be ‘extremely concerning’, Mind’s outgoing chief has told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Edenfield and Essex scandals are not one-offs
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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NewsVulnerable patients injured by 'inadequate' service
A troubled trust’s inpatient wards for people with a learning disability or autism have been rated “inadequate”, with staff criticised for resorting to restraint too readily which sometimes injured patients.
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NewsTrusts ‘rationing’ crisis support as only seven ICSs achieve service expansion
Only a handful of integrated care systems have so far managed to implement a key expansion in their support for patients in mental health crisis.
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News‘Appalled’ NHSE director orders safety review at all providers
The NHS’ mental health director has branded abuse exposed at a city inpatient unit as “heartbreaking and shameful” and ordered all providers to review their safety.
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NewsService threatens to sue CQC after ‘inadequate’ rating
An independent mental health facility is challenging an “inadequate” Care Quality Commission rating, and said it will use “the full extent of the law” to do so.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The Truss regime is forgetting mental health
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: ‘Worst’ NHS trust faces writing on the wall
Amid four “inadequate” ratings and a new leadership inspection, is the writing on the wall for one of the NHS’ worst performing trusts over the last decade?
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NewsHospital rated ‘inadequate’ after death prompts inspection
A private hospital has been rated ‘inadequate’ by a health watchdog following an inspection prompted by a young patient’s preventable death.
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NewsNo mental health data taken in cyber attack, NHSE confirms
No patient data held by mental health trusts was taken following a cyber attack this summer, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsNew CEO for trust beset by national controversy
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has appointed its new chief executive, four months after its existing CEO announced he was retiring.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust could be split after crucial CQC inspection, sources warn
An imminent inspection of a special measures trust’s leadership could prompt the provider to be broken up, senior figures have warned.
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NewsCampaigning MP to chair foundation trust
A long-serving Labour MP is leaving the Commons after 17 years and will join a mental health trust as its chair, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalCity braced for ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal
Police are braced to investigate a ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal in Greater Manchester, with a TV documentary expected to include allegations of serious patient abuse.
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News‘Outstanding’ trust to share CEO and chair
An “outstanding” mental health trust will share a joint chief executive and chair with an acute trust covering the same patch, it has been announced.
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Expert BriefingThe uphill battle for mental health in schools
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, this week by senior content editor Hayley Kirton — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can ICSs improve access to mental health interventions across the health and social care system?
An HSJ webinar, in association with SilverCloud Health, discussed the importance of integration between mental health services and physical healthcare. Jen Trueland reports