Following leading work in AWP, nurses can now administer electroconvulsive treatment across the UK.
The Royal College of Psychiatry ECT has accepted the results of an AWP led national pilot study to train experienced specialist nurses to deliver ECT treatment as well as doctors.
This new practice, which gives patients better continuity of care and gives ECT nurses a chance to expand their role, was first proposed by our own Lead ECT nurse John Leyden, who is also ECT nurse representative for England Wales and N. Ireland on the Royal College of Psychiatry ECT special interest group.
We are delighted to announce that Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust has been selected as the preferred acquirer of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust. This decision follows a competitive process between ourselves and Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
The acquisition is not scheduled to complete until the end of 2016 and, in the meantime, we will focus on better understanding the organisation and engaging with its key stakeholders. There will be no change to how either organisation delivers its services during this period.
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) is embarking on a new era in their quality improvement journey.
BEH is teaming up with Haelo, the Innovation and Improvement Science Centre founded at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, (SRFT) as part of their world-renowned quality improvement programme.
Many in the mental health sector had been eagerly awaiting NHS England’s implementation plan proposing how the Mental Health Taskforce report, The five year forward view for mental health, will be put into practice. If successful, the significance of the plan could extend well beyond the mental health sector: some of the most important opportunities relate to the way in which people with mental health problems could be supported in general acute hospitals and in general practice.
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More people than ever are receiving psychological therapies and April saw the highest recovery rates so far in the history of the programme, end of year data has shown.
The number of people referred for treatment from January to March (Q4) increased to 367,689 by around 17,000 from 350,505 in Q3. The 15 per cent access target was exceeded hitting a new high of 16.8 per cent.
The independent mental health taskforce published its Five year forward view in February 2016, setting out the current state of mental health service provision in England and making recommendations in all service areas.
The Five year forward view for mental health was developed by the Independent Mental Health Taskforce for England and was published in February 2016. This implementation plan, led by Claire Murdoch, the new national mental health director, and Tim Kendall, national clinical director for mental health, sets out how the plan will be delivered, including clarity on the new funding. The report makes it clear that success depends on services being sustainable in the long term.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by Coventry and Warwickshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust as Requires Improvement following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.