NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Claire Murdoch, takes a look at the progress made in the first year of the Five Year Forward View programme.
The CQC inspected core services at the trust, which provides inpatient and community mental health services, between 17 and 19 October 2016. As a result it is rated as Good overall as well as Good for being safe, caring effective, responsive and well led.
Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was previously inspected in November 2015 when it was rated as Requires Improvement and the trust board was told it needed to make a number of improvements.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the community mental health services for children and young people provided by Northumbria Healthcare NHSFT as Good following an inspection in September 2016.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust as Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in September.
People with autism, learning disabilities and mental health issues – and their carers – often have to face the challenge of having a lack of continuity of social workers. It can be frustrating and it can lead to bad physical health. A new initiative – the Named Social Work pilot scheme – is addressing this by creating the role of a single named social worker. An interim report on the project’s progress is launched today.
Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s re-inspection report, Carolyn Regan, Chief Executive at West London Mental Health NHS Trust said:
“This re-inspection report clearly highlights the huge range of improvements that our staff have worked tirelessly to put in place. From our new Thames Lodge medium secure unit to improvements in staff morale, reduction and review of restrictive practices and work to improve the assessment, monitoring and treatment of our patients’ physical health.
A mental health teaching centre for medical undergraduates has been shortlisted for an NHS health education award after encouraging its students to listen and learn from those who know best: the people who use mental health services.
The Psychiatry Teaching Unit (PTU) has been selected as a finalist at Health Education England’s 2017 Excellence in Education Awards, for its innovative approach to educating the psychiatrists of tomorrow – by arranging for them to be taught and assessed by people with personal experience of mental ill health.
Fatherhood: the impact of fathers on children’s mental health, our 50th briefing paper, explores the research available on this topic and highlights the distinct role fathers can play in nurturing good mental health in their children.
Prisons need a profound culture change to prevent people from losing their lives through suicide, according to a report published today by Centre for Mental Health and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Controversial plans to transform and integrate health and social care services require at least £9.5bn of capital funding – but NHS leaders don’t have the cash and will ask for demands to be ‘reviewed’ and ‘refined’.
A BMA investigation into the 44 STPs (sustainability and transformation plans) in England has revealed the vast sums needed just to create the infrastructure to deliver the projects, with costly building projects and investment in community facilities vital to the plans.
We are pleased to launch a new Core Skills Education and Training Framework for the mental health workforce, with the aim of increasing the quality and consistency of care in mental health services
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the rating of Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in October 2016.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the rating of Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following a comprehensive inspection by the CQC in September 2016