Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock is setting out his ambition for every patient in the country to have access to social prescribing schemes on the NHS as readily as they do medical care.
Social prescribing involves helping patients to improve their health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to community services. This can include activities such as art and singing classes.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Oct 10, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000389
Objective: Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), an illness self-management intervention used internationally, enhances perceived recovery for adults with psychiatric disabilities, but the magnitude of positive change is modest at best. As part of a larger study about how adults with serious mental illness learn and use illness self-management strategies through WRAP, this paper reports on an investigation of the relationship between problem-solving and perceived recovery for WRAP users and addresses the question: To what extent is the degree of problem-solving confidence associated with the degree of perceived recovery for WRAP users? . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Sally McManus writes her debut elf blog on a recent national cohort study of multiple adverse outcomes following first discharge from psychiatric care.
A new NHS service has launched to help people with learning disabilities and/or autism moving back into the community from a forensic hospital.
The Forensic Outreach Liaison Service (FOLS) supports people aged 18 years and above who have a learning disability or autism (or both) that are at risk of or have come in to contact with the criminal justice system or been admitted to a secure hospital setting.
eople experiencing serious mental illness in Herefordshire will be helped to find work thanks to NHS-funded Employment Specialists.
NHS funding has been award to 2gether NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Landau, a central England-based charity located in Herefordshire, which supports people with barriers into work through a voluntary scheme.
A successful pilot scheme has already been running in the county, with it being rolled out fully in July.