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NewsFew staff using wellbeing hubs despite rise in sick days
Only 53,500 staff have used a flagship NHS staff wellbeing initiative in its first year of operation, HSJ can reveal, while separate analysis finds mental health sick days have soared in the last five years.
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Mental Health Matters: The profession at ‘high risk’ of being lost
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Mental Health Matters: Thorn in the flesh
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence. Mental Health Matters is written by HSJ’s new mental health correspondent, Emily Townsend. Tell her what you think, or about issues she could write about, by emailing her in confidence at ...
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Health service accused of ‘painfully slow’ progress on eating disorder training
Progress on medical education in eating disorders has been ‘painfully slow’ and is harming patients, a leading consultant psychiatrist has told HSJ.
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Rapid rise in ‘high risk’ estates bill revealed
The bill for fixing NHS buildings to avoid serious injuries to patients and major disruption to clinical services is rising at a rapid rate in mental healthcare, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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The government has gone silent on mental health
If the government is genuinely serious about “levelling-up”, they need to tackle the disparity between funding for physical health and mental health and deliver the funding mental health services need, writes Dr Adrian James
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Patients face ‘inevitable rationing’ as one in four psychiatry posts not substantive
Psychiatry is facing a ‘double whammy’ of chronic consultant shortages where patient care is being rationed and under-pressure doctors are working with ‘hands tied behind their backs’, a leading clinician has warned.
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Revealed: Widespread gaps in ‘gold-standard’ service a year on from NHSE launch
More than half of England has limited or no access to a ‘gold standard’ eating disorder programme proven to halve the need for intensive treatment, a year after NHS England funded 18 pilot projects in the wake of five women’s anorexia deaths, HSJ analysis reveals.
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The Health and Care Bill: A make or break moment for parity of esteem
The Health and Care Bill gives us an opportunity to put our best foot forward in ensuring parity between mental and physical health, writes Dr Adrian James
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Mental Health Matters: No safe space for mothers
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HSJ podcast: Why the eating disorder care crisis is risking lives
Eating disorder services in the NHS are at crisis point, with lockdown making an already pressurised situation even worse.
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‘No capacity anywhere’ to deal with unprecedented surge in children’s mental health demand
There is ‘no capacity anywhere’ to deal with an unprecedented surge in admissions of children with mental health problems, a senior clinician has told HSJ .
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Mental Health Matters: Get health checks back on track
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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Mental Health Matters: The desperate need for a major settlement
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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Exclusive: Trusts offering controversial trauma ‘treatment’ to new mums
Several NHS trusts are offering a ‘treatment’ for birth trauma which uses a technique which lies outside national guidelines and which is criticised by specialists as potentially causing ‘more harm than good’.
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Mental Health Matters: Acute bosses must recognise the impact on their A&Es
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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Leak reveals hundreds of 12-hour A&E breaches for mental health patients
New data has revealed for the first time that hundreds of mental health patients are waiting more than 12 hours in London’s emergency departments.
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Mental Health Matters: Bed constraints start to bite
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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Mental Health Matters: These scandals would not be tolerated in the acute sector
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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Exclusive: Stevens accuses drugs firm of ‘using cover of coronavirus to price-gouge taxpayers’
The NHS England chief executive has publicly accused a pharma company of ”using the cover of coronavirus to try and price-gouge British taxpayers” — a claim the firm has strongly denied.
