All Social care articles – Page 96
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Prison mental healthcare: developing cultural competence
Link workers are enhancing mental healthcare for black and ethic minority prisoners.One such person, community development worker Irfan Mohammed, acts as a link worker for prisoners in Dorset.
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Time to step up to patient-centred care
Mental health clients using services in the community can become commissioners in their own right, says Ailsa Claire
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Reaching more carers at home
The Family Welfare Association has recruited home visitors with knowledge of a wider range of community languages to help mental health service users and their carers in the London borough of Tower Hamlets as part of its Carers Connect project.
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Empowering communities: mental healthcare in Oldham
Local initiatives can help to bring awareness of mental healthcare services to more groups.
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Delivering race equality: community development workers
A developing community mental healthcare role is improving access for diverse groups, says Louis Appleby
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Social care institute calls for more e-learning
Research commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence shows that the social care workforce is ready to use more web-based methods of learning.
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Born under a bad sign
Perinatal depression is gaining a higher profile, with. a drive to increase awareness and provide wider access. to specialist provision. Emma Dent reports
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Older people not receiving enough mental health support
More than 3.5 million older people with mental health problems are not receiving enough services or support, according to an independent inquiry supported by Age Concern.
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Ex-offenders should not be excluded from volunteering
As the national volunteering development agency, we were very alarmed by the tone of the article 'Criminal checks fail to exclude staff', and the related editorial in a recent issue of HSJ. There appeared to be little understanding of vetting procedures, Criminal Record Bureau guidelines or accepted good practice in ...
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Adult care joint ventures
The Integrated Care Network's report Adult Care Joint Ventures: aspirations, challenges and options sets out to explore radically alternative models of adult care services commissioning and provision.
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Dementia services begin long journey out of the dark ages
With an ageing population and fragmented care, dementia services face pressure to get their house in order. Daloni Carlisle reports on the difficulties they must overcome
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Clarity needed on 'stealth' social enterprise bodies
Social enterprises working in the health service are becoming unaccountable and bureaucratic as they move away from their community-focused roots, academics have warned.
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Activity project leaps obstacles
Barriers to sport and physical activities for children with special health needs are being removed, explains Helen Sugden
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Protecting public and patient involvement
The blind drive to force the introduction of local involvement networks and abolish patient and public involvement forums is dangerous and misguided.
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Success story: pulmonary rehabilitation
One primary care trust's award-winning pulmonary rehabilitation service has made a real difference to local people's lives, as David Peat explains
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Ministers have no time for bold moves, warns Dickson
The health service has been told not to expect any 'courageous' moves from the new government before the general election.
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Inspector calls for reviews of commissioning
The Healthcare Commission is calling on prime minister Gordon Brown to include independent assessments of commissioners in the health and social care bill.
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Maggie Rae on righting wrongs
'Seeing desperate poverty and inequality of life chances galvanised me and has continued to be a driving force for more than 25 years'
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Social enterprise: a rich seam of ideas
Trailblazing pathfinders are using new funding to create choice and breathe new life into communities. Louise Hunt reports
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Volunteering and mental health
Separate independent research adds to the mounting evidence that volunteering has important health benefits. Preliminary studies indicate that volunteering can have positive outcomes for 85 per cent.of mental health service users who participate. (see 'The health benefits of volunteering').