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HSJ KnowledgeTackling social exclusion: an accessible answer to a huge unmet need
Homelessness, drug or alcohol dependency and poor mental health can combine to exclude people from care but access can be greatly improved, reports Ann Dix
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Comment'You don't have to be insensitive to work here, but it helps'
New Horizons, launched on Monday, got a pleasing amount of coverage for a mental health story.
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CommentAngela Greatley: mental health services are moving on
The asylums have long since closed - we need to maintain the pressure for better care so people with mental health problems can lead productive, positive lives
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NewsNo funds promised with New Horizons mental health strategy
A cross-governmental action plan has set out a framework for the next decade of mental health policy - but without targets or a funding commitment.
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NewsMental health trusts respond to New Horizons
Mental health trusts are pressing the government to look at fresh ways of protecting services given predicted activity increases and the lack of a national tariff.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health roadmap
The primary aim of world class commissioning is to improve the skills of primary care trusts to make them more effective commissioners. The 11 WCC competencies focus on the key areas required of PCTs, but some areas are inevitably more developed than others.
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NewsPCTs urged to chase mental health value
Patchy spending on adult mental health services around the country has prompted calls for commissioners to tackle inequalities and ensure they are getting value for money.
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NewsNew Horizons policy direction lauded despite missing details
An “aspirational” strategy setting out the next 10 years of mental health policy has been welcomed despite a lack of detail on how it will be achieved.
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NewsCall for ambitious mental health targets
Public services such as the NHS, schools and transport should be set targets to reduce the financial burden of mental illness, according to mental health leaders.
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CommentMike Hobbs: fear, alcohol and government policy
Mental health action week was naturally a time for ministerial statements and topical third sector reports on key mental health issues. Inevitably, some referred to the present economic context. Prominent government initiatives appear to be contradictory, but are they?
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NewsRecession 'more damaging to men's mental health than women's'
The recession is having a disproportionately negative effect on men’s mental health, according to a report published today.
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DH seeks views on new mental health strategy
A series of “listening events” is being held to gather views on the Department of Health’s new mental health strategy.
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NewsHealthcare Commission criticises older people's mental healthcare
Older people with mental health concerns are often denied the full range of services offered to the young
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New unit to oversee delivery of mental health policies
The National Institute for Mental Health in England is being scrapped and replaced with a new agency to oversee the implementation of mental health policies.
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Angela Greatley on focusing on mental health
It has become an accepted fact among those of us who work in mental health that there is no health without mental health. But does the NHS think this way?Mental ill health is not just a hugely significant and costly burden on those who live with it. It is also ...
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HSJ talks to care services minister Phil Hope
Care services minister Phil Hope promises his personal experience of the health service as a Hodgkin’s patient will mean service users are at the heart of his policies. Helen Crump finds out what’s on his to-do list. Plus, watch an exclusive video interview with Mr Hope