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Demand for Mental Health Inpatient Beds in England (BBC News / NHS Strategy Unit)
Summary Hundreds more NHS mental health beds would be required in England to end the practice of sending patients far from home for treatment (so called “out-of-area placements”). An NHS Strategy Unit report explores the pressures on inpatient mental health … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Average Distances Travelled by Patients at CCGs and Local Area Teams, Care Integration, Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), Community Care, Community Care Beds and Services, Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Mental Health and Social Care Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Far-Away Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, Improving Acute Psychiatric Care for Adults in England, Inappropriate Far-Away Placements, Inappropriate OAPs (sic), Inappropriate Out of Area Treatments, Independent Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Mental Health Inpatient Capacity, Mental Health Patients Forced to Travel, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Services, NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU, NHS Strategy Unit, Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, Out-of-Area Care, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Reducing Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs)
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Mandatory Learning Disability and Autism Awareness Training for NHS Staff (DHSC / BBC News)
Summary Mandatory learning disability and autism awareness-raising training is to be introduced for healthcare staff. The level of such training will be proportionate to each member of staff’s role and level of contact with people with a learning disability. Full … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BBC Bristol News, Consultation Outcome: Learning Disability and Autism Training for Health and Care Staff, Mandatory Learning Disability and Autism Awareness Training, Mandatory Learning Disability and Autism Training for Healthcare Staff, Mandatory Training
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Detention of Children and Young People With Learning Disabilities and/or Autism (Joint Committee on Human Rights / BBC News)
Summary Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) indicates that the human rights of young people with a learning disabilities and / or autism are being breached in mental health hospitals. Proposals for radical reform are advocated. “Too often families of … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Young Adults and Children, Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs), Avoidable Harm, BBC Education News, BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Undercover Abuse Scandal, BBC Panorama: Whorlton Hall Hospital Abuse, BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Programme, British Association for Supported Employment, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Centre for Welfare Reform, Challenging Behaviour, Children With Learning Disabilities or Autism Admitted to Secure Mental Health Hospitals, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Community and Mental Health Trusts, Court of Protection, CQC Interim Report on How Hospitals Separate Children and Young People With Mental Health Problems Learning Disabilities or Autism, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Detention of Children and Young People With Learning Disabilities and/or Autism, Evidence Search and Summary Service (ESSS), Guidelines and Audit Implementation Network (GAIN), Harmful Detention, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities in England, Hospital Abuse, House of Commons, House of Lords, Ian Trenholm: Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission (CQC), Inquiry Into Detention of Children and Young People With Learning Disabilities and/or Autism, Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services: IRISS, Institutional Abuse, Institutional Factors, Institutional Neglect, IRISS: Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services, Joint Committee on Human Rights, Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Acute Hospitals, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Community Services, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Mental Health Services, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disabilities: Regulation and Inspection, Learning Disability in General Hospital Settings, Openness and Transparency, Patient Harm, Physical Restraint in Hospital Settings, Physical Restraint in Mental Healthcare, Picker Institute Europe, Protecting Vulnerable People, Reducing Avoidable Harm, Responsible Commissioning, Restraint, Restraint in Health and Adult Social Care, Restraint in Mental Health Trusts, Restraint Prolonged Seclusion and Segregation, Restrictive Interventions, Safeguarding, Segregation, Segregation in Mental Health Wards for Children and Young People and in Wards for People With a Learning Disability or Autism, Transforming Care, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Transitions of Care for Users of Learning Disability Services, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Victoria Derbyshire Programme, Vulnerable Groups, Whistleblowing, Whorlton Hall, Winterbourne View Hospital, Winterbourne View: Transforming Care, Young Adults and Children Safeguarding, Young Adults and Children Safeguarding Concerns and Enquiries, Young People With Learning Disabilities in Transition
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Optimal Timing of Blood Pressure Medication: Insight Into Chronotherapy for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction (BBC News / EHJ / Bazian)
Summary Results from the Hygia Chronotherapy Trial suggest that blood pressure medicines may be more effective at lowering blood pressure, and reducing the risk of heart attacks and / or stroke, when taken at bedtime. Full Text Link Reference Roberts, M. (2019). Blood … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, International, Management of Condition, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Stroke, Universal Interest
Tagged Asleep Blood Pressure, Atlantic Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (AtlantTIC), Bazian, BBC Health News, Bedtime Hypertension, Bioengineering and Chronobiology Laboratories: University of Vigo, Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure Medications, Blood Pressure Medications (Timing), Body Clock, Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction, Chronotherapy, Circadian Cycles, Circadian Factors, Circadian Rhythms, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Critical Appraisals, CVD: Cardiovascular Disease, Estructura de Xestión Integrada de Ourense, Estructura de Xestión Integrada de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Estructura de Xestión Integrada de Vigo: Servicio Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), European Heart Journal, Heart Failure, High Blood Pressure, Human Circadian Clock, Hygia Project Investigators, Hygia Chronotherapy Trial, Hypertension, Myocardial Infarction, NCT03457168, Servicio de Nefrología: Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Servicio Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Spain, Stroke Risk Factor Modification, University of Vigo, University of Vigo (Spain)
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Football and Dementia Risk: Mortality From Neurodegenerative Disease Higher in Former Professional Soccer Players (BBC News / Drake Foundation / NEJM / Bazian)
Summary The Football’s InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD) study, based at Glasgow University and supported by The Football Association and The Professional Footballers’ Association, found that former Scottish professional football players tend to be over 3.5 times more … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Parkinson's Disease, Quick Insights, Scotland, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Alan Shearer, Bazian, BBC Health News, BBC Sport, Behind the Headlines, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Dementia in Retired Association Football (Soccer) Players, Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Department of Neuropathology: Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), Drake Foundation, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Football Association, Football Association (FA), Football Brain Injury Research, Football Headers, Football’s InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD) Study, Former Professional Soccer Players, Glasgow Brain Injury Research Group, Glasgow University, Hampden Sports Clinic: Hampden Stadium (Glasgow), Heading Footballs Associated With Dementia / CTE: a New Category of Industrial Injury?, Heading Heavy Leather Footballs, HEADING Study (Health and Ageing Data IN the Game of football), Heading the Ball, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences: University of Glasgow, Institute of Health and Wellbeing: University of Glasgow, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology: University of Glasgow, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Modifiable Risk Factors, Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality in Former Professional Soccer Players, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neuropathology, New England Journal of Medicine, Professional Footballers, Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (rTBI), Retired Soccer Players With Dementia, Soccer Heading, Sports Medicine, Sub-Concussive Head Impacts, Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Glasgow
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