People in Sandwell who are worried about their own memory problems – or those of other people – are invited to a new monthly drop-in session.
Memory Matters takes place at The Lighthouse, Edward Street Hospital, Edward Street, West Bromwich, on the third Monday of every month from 10am-4pm.
Professionals will be on hand to offer advice and guidance to people who are concerned that they are becoming a bit forgetful, or are worried about a friend or relative.
Health services face the challenges created by complex problems, and so need complex intervention solutions. However they also experience ongoing difficulties in translating findings from research in this area in to quality improvement changes on the ground. BounceBack was a service development innovation project which sought to examine this issue through the implementation and evaluation in a primary care setting of a novel complex intervention.
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The project was a collaboration between a local mental health charity, an academic unit, and GP practices. The aim was to translate the charity’s model of care into practice-based evidence describing delivery and impact. Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) was used to support the implementation of the new model of primary mental health care into six GP practices. An integrated process evaluation evaluated the process and impact of care in northern England..
A 12 month pilot will see mental health professionals from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust based at the Rochdale Police Station.
They will work alongside a dedicated police co-ordinator to help identify and engage with people with mental health needs who routinely come into contact with the police services.
“The ongoing admission process then includes a daily meeting of all clinicians and professionals involved in patient care to discuss each patient and their needs. This allows any gaps in their care plan to be addressed that day – for example checking both physical and mental health checks have been completed, any housing needs addressed or pharmacy needs understood and actioned. This helps ensure that patients receive the appropriate support from the right people at the right time. It also means that discharges are not delayed because the patient is waiting for an assessment in any area.”
It will see a special response car, manned by experienced volunteers, called to support police attending out-of-hours incidents involving veterans with mental health problems. Working alongside specialist teams from NSFT, they will assess the individual and offer peer support, as well as helping them to access other services which may be able to help.
The Suffolk Primary Care Mental Health Service, otherwise known as Wellbeing Suffolk, will provide a range of holistic, tailored services for both children and adults to support their emotional wellbeing.
With extended opening hours from 8am to 8pm during the week, Wellbeing Suffolk will offer people accessible, responsive help before their problems become too great. The new-look service will also provide talking therapies for those with a wider range of mental health problems, so that they can get the support they need within the community, in turn avoiding a referral into specialist services.
NSFT will work with a wide variety of community and third sector organisations to deliver the service, including Suffolk Family Carers, Relate and 4YP, who will provide interventions to boost wellbeing, such as support for carers.
The Lister House Partnership, which provides GP services in Wiveliscombe and Milverton, has transferred its management to Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, the county’s provider of community, mental health and learning disability services.
The arrangement was made when the previous GP partners of Lister House approached Somerset Partnership as they were leaving or retiring and could not recruit any new GPs to fill the vacancies.
In a new report, the Committee concludes that while the Government has a "laudable ambition" to improve these services, "we are sceptical about whether this is affordable, or achievable without compromising other services".
The Committee finds pressure on the NHS budget will make it very difficult to achieve 'parity of esteem' between mental and physical health and that this is a task "for the whole of government".
Today we have launched a new publication which showcases projects that promote early intervention in mental health and draws out tips from the commissioners and practitioners involved in their development and delivery.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and mental health charity Mind in Cambridgeshire have teamed up to offer a new safe haven for those experiencing a mental heath crisis in Peterborough.
The Sanctuary will open on Monday, 19 September to allow people to get practical and emotional support.
The move marks the start of the latest stage of the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard programme in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
NHS organisations together with local authorities, police and representatives from the third sector have combined to launch a number of projects aimed at improving the way urgent mental health care is delivered and to reduce the pressures on accident and emergency departments.
Open access. The move to a digital health service may improve some components of health systems: information, communication and documentation of care. This article gives a brief definition and history of what is meant by an electronic health record (EHR). There is some evidence of benefits in a number of areas, including legibility, accuracy and the secondary use of information, but there is a need for further research, which may need to use different methodologies to analyse the impact an EHR has on patients, professionals and providers.
Open access. The need for an age-appropriate in-patient service for 16- to 17-year-olds led to the development of a 6-bed acute admissions unit in a non-metropolitan county in the UK. We provide a descriptive evaluation of the first 2 years of its operation. All admissions from April 2010 to March 2012 were reviewed, clinical details systematically recorded and descriptively analysed.
With a spring in his step, lecturer Jeroen Ensink left his suburban London home to post cards to his many friends around the world, announcing the arrival of his baby daughter. Seconds later his life was over. A young man had pounced, and in a state of frenzy, savagely stabbed his random victim (Daily Mail, 4 January 2016). As psychiatric patient Femi Nandap begins detention in a high-security institution, we should spare some thought for Jeroen's wife, and his only child..............Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
A random-effects meta-analysis of studies that used Markov transition probabilities (TPs) to describe outcomes for mental health service systems of differing quality for persons with serious mental illness was implemented to improve the scientific understanding of systems performance, to use in planning simulations to project service system costs and outcomes over time, and to test a theory of how outcomes for systems varying in quality differ. : Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The projects, one which looks at managing physical healthcare problems for mental health patients, and the other, an online training package for health professionals to help improve the care planning process, have both been given the accolade ‘highly commended’.
Dr Jaspreet Phull, has developed an interactive app for service users to complete, which includes a questionnaire relating to their physical healthcare needs. This enables mental health professionals to have a full picture of the kind of care plan required for patients accessing mental health services.
Since 2008, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has disseminated evidence-based interventions for depression and anxiety problems. In order to maintain quality standards, government policy in England sets the expectation that 50% of treated patients should meet recovery criteria according to validated patient-reported outcome measures. Using national IAPT data, we found evidence suggesting that the prevalence of mental health problems is greater in poorer areas and that these areas had lower average recovery rates. After adjusting benchmarks for local index of multiple deprivation, we found significant differences between unadjusted (72.5%) and adjusted (43.1%) proportions of underperforming clinical commissioning group areas. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare officially opened Beacon Lodge, a new 12 bedded step down unit for people recovering from an acute phase of mental illness, delivered in partnership with Turning Point, at a special event on 5 October.
The L&D service offers support to people of all ages who are attending a police investigation centre, magistrates or crown court and have vulnerabilities such as mental health difficulties, substance misuse issues or learning disabilities.
Staff will quickly identify people who could benefit from support and refer them as appropriate. The service operates seven days a week, and provides help in a wide variety of areas, including education, employment and mental health, with the aim of reducing the chance of re-offending in the future.
The Education Policy Institute’s Independent Commission on Children and Young People’s Mental Health has released a new report, Time to Deliver, which calls for a new ‘Prime Minister’s Challenge’ on children and young people’s mental health.
This guide is about the commissioning of good quality mental health interventions and services for people with complex and longer term problems to support them in their recovery. It has been updated in November 2016.