All Mental health articles – Page 69
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NewsExclusive: Public want new NHS money to go on cancer and staff, not digital
The public’s highest priorities for new NHS funding are cancer care and staffing, while their lowest are digital access and better services for vulnerable groups.
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NewsLong-term plan must end 'scandalous neglect' of over 65s
A “scandalous” neglect of older people’s mental health care needs to be addressed in the NHS long-term plan, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has argued.
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CommentThe Bedpan: Financially illiterate and morally wrong
This week: Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree
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CommentWorkforce shortages are a greater challenge to the NHS than funding
Lack of skilled staff is already impacting access and quality of care, and without a shift in workforce policy the situation will worsen over the next decade, warn Anita Charlesworth, Candace Imison and Richard Murray
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HSJ LocalNew chief appointed to mental health trust
Lancashire Care Foundation Trust has appointed a mental health chief from Staffordshire as its new leader.
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NewsHealth secretary identifies ‘big three’ workforce shortage areas
Nurses, GPs and mental health staff are “the big three” areas where the health and social care secretary is most concerned about staff shortages, he told HSJ.
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NewsTrusts could be told to stockpile equipment ahead of Brexit
NHS providers could be asked to stockpile certain types of products under government plans to mitigate the UK leaving the EU without an agreed deal.
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NewsPolice close corporate manslaughter probe into trust
A mental health trust will not face charges of corporate manslaughter, the police have said following a probe into the deaths of 25 patients.
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NewsCQC is considering 31 NHS prosecutions, new chief reveals
The Care Quality Commission is actively considering more than 31 prosecutions of NHS organisations and has hired 11 ex-military and civil police officers to review evidence.
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NewsLocal health systems to be measured on new performance metrics
New metrics are under development to measure local health systems against the ambitions of the NHS long-term plan.
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Expert BriefingGreater Manchester eyes 52 NHS sites for 1,700 new homes
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The price of parity
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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HSJ LocalCCG's service cuts leave patients with 'nowhere else'
A clinical commissioning group’s proposal to cut a service for severe mental health needs will leave patients with “nowhere else” to go, a union has warned.
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HSJ LocalReview of 1,400 patients after 'inappropriate' treatment concerns
Fears over the “inappropriate” treatment of children and young people with autism has prompted a review of 1,400 cases in a trust’s under pressure mental health service.
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NewsChancellor: Mental health's share of NHS spend will increase
The NHS has “committed to increasing mental health funding as a share of the overall budget over the next five years”, the Treasury has said, and announced that work to achieve “parity of esteem” will be the “first stage of the NHS long-term plan”.
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NewsDoubling the number of medical students is ‘not affordable’
Doubling the number of medical students is “not affordable”, the chief executive of Health Education England has said.
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NewsNHS England 'should look beyond big killer diseases'
The lead researcher on a landmark public health study has said NHS England must look beyond cancer and heart disease and invest in preventing back pain, skin diseases and poor mental health which are leading causes of ill health.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Virgin territory
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Mind the gaps
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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CommentThe long term plan must break the cycle of winter crises
The coming winter is likely to be even more difficult than the last due to system wide demand/capacity gap, but the NHS long term plan offers a ray of hope to enable service transformation, says Claire Helm