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.
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.
Open access. Personal health budgets (PHBs) were piloted in the National Health Service (NHS) in England between 2009 and 2012 and were found to have greater positive effects on quality of life and psychological well-being for those with mental health problems than commissioned service, as well as reducing their use of unplanned care. The government intends to extend PHBs in England for long-term conditions, including mental health, from April 2015. Given the importance of engaging clinicians in the next phase of PHB development, we provide an overview of the approach, synthesise the evidence from the national pilot and debate some of the opportunities and challenges. Balancing individual choice and recovery with concerns for risk, equity and the sustainability of existing community services is the central tension underpinning this innovation in mental health service delivery.
There is now a steadily-growing evidence base for the effectiveness of early intervention in psychosis (McGorry, 2015; Secher et al., 2014), alongside evidence of its cost effectiveness (Hastrup et al., 2013; McCrone et al., 2013). Despite this evidence, it has been argued that proper funding and implementation of EI services across difference countries is lacking (Addington et al., 2013).
A new technical report has just been published which examines the availability of EI services for psychosis across Europe (McDaid et al., 2016).
Is prison the right environment for those with severe mental health issues? Evidence indicates that increasingly people with mental health problems are finding themselves incarcerated (Bradley, 2009). There is a growing consensus that this may not be the best environment for those with mental illness, with custody exacerbating issues, and increasing risk of self-harm and suicide (Bradley, 2009).
A new report showcasing how GPs are designing and leading innovative schemes to improve the integration of care in the best interests of patients, has been published by the Royal College of GPs today. Case studies include Derbyshire GP practice employing MH worker; GP-led Child Health Clinic on Shetland; Brighton Memory Assessment Service
Bringing together health and social care has been a constant and dominant policy theme for many decades, and many places around the country are already demonstrating the potential to do things differently.
We - the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Local Government Association, NHS Clinical Commissioners and NHS Confederation - believe it is time to put integrated systems and services to the test, to translate aspirations into action, and to ensure they deliver for our citizens.
So we have come together to describe what a fully integrated, transformed system should look like based on what the evidence tells us.
The development is in response to a recent commissioning guide by NHS England which shows that a timely access to a specialist team improves the outcome of eating disorders in under-18s, and offers detailed guidance on establishing and maintaining a high quality service.
An innovative new treatment to help individuals with drug-resistant depression is launched at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.
The Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device uses a pulsating magnetic field to target specific sites in the brain, stimulating nerve cells in those areas, thereby easing symptoms of depression.
NELFT was asked to present its Integrated Adult Mental Health Care Pathway by the NHS Benchmarking Network to commissioners from London and South England. This was in recognition of being a centre of excellence nationally, following the publication of Lord Crisp’s RCPsych Acute Commission report. Lord Crisp visited NELFT in October last year with fellow members of the Commission to learn more about the Trust’s pioneering mental health services.
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMW) has developed a bespoke mental health training package which will be delivered to over 280 front line Police Officers in Greater Manchester. The Crisis Response and De-escalation Leaders in Emergency Services Training (CRADLES) will help officers develop further skills to support and protect vulnerable people in crisis.
The Poplars community unit is part of Wakefield older people’s services at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Unit manager Debbie Peel and team provide services for people with memory problems, and have been inspired by the success of a weekly tea dance to launch a vintage tea room Rempod!
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..