All Mental health articles – Page 81
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HSJ LocalSpecial measures FT to buddy with outstanding trust
A struggling foundation trust that was put back into special measures less than a year after exiting them has been assigned an outstanding rated buddy trust.
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CommentThe budget was more positive than expected
Overall for the NHS, this Budget was much better than feared but not nearly as good as it needed to be. By Anita Charlesworth, John Appleby and Siva Anandaciva
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NewsHSJ chief executive of the year revealed
The leader of a mental health and community services trust has been named chief executive of the year at the 2017 HSJ Awards.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: International Health Partnership
Sponsored by NHS Employers Sponsored by THET The Butabika-East London Link: Partnership for Excellence This non-profit organisation developed the Butabika-East London Link partnership to improve the provision of mental health services in Uganda and the UK. The service users were trained and empowered to ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Most effective adoption and diffusion of existing best practice
Integrated Care Exeter Strategic Alliance: Integrated Care Exeter Wellbeing Exeter The team developed a programme to enhance the health and wellbeing of people by engaging them with their community and empowering people to self manage. Fifty four per cent of people involved in the programme showed improved mental health, ...
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health pleads guilty to third prosecution
Southern Health has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law after a patient died while in the trust’s care.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Getting tough on 'indefensible practice'
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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HSJ LocalOutstanding trust wins five year £195m contract outside patch
One of the country’s leading mental health trusts has won a £195m contract to provide community health services in Bedfordshire.
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CommentThree tests this budget needs to pass to reverse the impact of the NHS funding gap
Chris Askew asks whether the budget will reverse the decline of access to timely and good quality healthcare
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A Budget for putting politics above prosperity
We’re approaching a moment when a government that has been warned that the NHS funding situation will threaten quality, access and safety is going to choose to ignore that warning, says Andy Cowper in the runup to the Budget
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HSJ LocalTrust defies CQC order to change weapons search policy
A large mental health trust is resisting a requirement from the Care Quality Commission to drop blanket patient searches as it would put people at risk from knife crime.
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HSJ LocalMental health chief executive to take over at acute trust
A mental health trust chief executive will lead a neighbouring acute trust as part of a hospital chain, HSJ understands.
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NewsTrusts could face regulatory action over out of area placements
Trusts could face regulatory action for not reducing the time people spend being treated at mental health inpatient units miles away from home, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsStevens: Waiting list will hit 5 million by 2021 without extra money
The elective waiting list will balloon to 5 million patients by 2021 and ambitions to improve mental health and cancer care will be jeopardised unless the NHS gets a major funding boost in line with pre-2010 increases, Simon Stevens has warned.
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NewsManagers having 'suicidal thoughts' due to pressure, union boss warns
NHS managers are experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts because of the pressure they are working under, the chief executive of the Managers in Partnership union has warned.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The CAMHS cause célèbre
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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NewsPeople with learning disabilities 'less likely to have care errors picked up'
An investigation into the deaths of people with learning disabilities has revealed they were “less likely” to have mistakes in their care “picked up”.
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NewsPrivate provider shuts children's unit after regulators intervene
An independent provider is to stop providing children and adolescents’ mental health services at one of its units after NHS England and the Care Quality Commission said further action was needed to safeguard the “health and welfare” of patients.
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NewsLatest Carter review identifies nearly £200m in back-office savings
Findings from Lord Carter’s efficiency review into mental and community health services has identified almost £200m of potential savings through scaling up trusts’ corporate services.
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CommentI’m a bipolar NHS leader – and I still fear telling my colleagues
The NHS can be at the forefront in changing perceptions to mental health issues in the workplace, says a CCG director anonymously revealing to HSJ about his mental health condition