Inpatients Formally Detained in Hospitals Under the Mental Health Act 1983 and patients subject to Supervised Community Treatment is a detailed study based on information from organisations in England which provide Mental Health Services and make use of the Mental Health Act 1983 legislation, as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007.
Dudley contract for multispecialty community provider includes mental health services as well as adult social care, LD and physical healthcare services. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Emergency and urgent MH liaison targets. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
An on-street assessment by a specialist team has been shown to more than half the number of police detentions under the Mental Health Act and potentially save large health trusts £1 million a year.
Street Triage is a service that comprises a mental health nurse working alongside a dedicated police officer in mobile community units.
The initiative enables the police and the NHS to work collaboratively to make sure an individual gets the best care possible when concerns about their mental state are reported to officers.
Experts at Newcastle University, publishing in BMJ Open, found the annual rate of detentions under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act reduced by 56% in the first year Street Triage was introduced.
Dr Neil Ralph, a programme manager for mental health and learning disability, presented an update from Health Education England on planning and skill development for the mental health workforce.
The deputy chief inspector of hospitals and the quality regulator’s lead for mental health, Dr Paul Lelliott will be writing to a number of NHS and community mental health providers demanding action following their performance in this year’s survey of community mental healthcare, published today (Tuesday 15 November).
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the overall rating of 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following an inspection in July this year.
England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has told Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust that it must make improvements following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in July 2016.
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.
Meeting the need: what makes a ‘good’ JSNA for mental health? explores how five local councils across England went about understanding the mental health needs of their communities and taking action to meet them more effectively.
The report was funded by Public Health England and produced in support of the National Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Network. It finds that joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs) for mental health and dementia can help to direct investment, to improve services and to help local agencies work together more effectively. To have the biggest impact, they need a clear purpose, effective leadership and advocacy, and partnerships that continue after the JSNA is completed to ensure that they lead to action.
Three London MH Trusts are planning to work together to make back office efficiencies and improve care pathways. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Four West Midlands mental health Trusts are launching a new drive to sign up nurses and apprentices with a major recruitment drive in Birmingham city centre this weekend. The joint event will be taking place on Saturday, November 12, between 11am-4pm at the first-floor meeting rooms in Birmingham City Library in Centenary Square, on Broad Street.Recruiters will be looking for full and part-time permanent RMN mental health nurses, apprentices and bank (temporary) contract nurses who want to work in acute treatment with psychiatric physical complexities, rehabilitation and specialist services, including PICU and eating disorders.
Two of Derbyshire’s NHS Foundation Trusts, which provide physical and mental health care to the county’s residents, have signalled an initial intention to merge and form a single body, in order to provide better care to local patients.
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (DHCFT) and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) have recently considered different ways in which the two Trusts can collaborate in order to provide greater benefits to local people, in respect of continuity of care and the alignment of physical and mental health needs.
On Thursday (28 October) the two Trust Boards agreed to further explore a preferred option for the two organisations to fully merge, through acquisition, with DCHS being the acquiring organisation. Whilst it is required that one Trust leads the transactional process in this way, the spirit of the collaboration would be to merge and create a new, single organisation.
On Tuesday 15 November, the Communications Committee inquiry into children and the internet examines issues surrounding mental health, as well as the suitability of material online. The Committee puts questions to mental health experts, as well as content monitoring bodies the Advertising Standards Agency and the British Board of Film Classification.
Plans to introduce more employment specialists into IAPT services from next year. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.