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Tag Archives: Autonomy and Safety
Independent Mental Health Act Review (BBC News / DHSC / Centre for Mental Health / NHS England)
Summary The independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, presents recommendations for reform based on four principles: Choice and autonomy. Least restriction. Therapeutic benefit. Understanding people as individuals: whereby patients are recognised and … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Diagnosis, 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Care Planning for People With Mental Illness, Aftercare, Alternative Forms of Support and Respite, Alternatives to Inpatient Care for People With Learning Disabilities, Autonomy, Autonomy and Choice, Autonomy and Safety, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Communities, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Groups, BME Communities, BME People with Mental Illness, Care and Compassion, Care and Treatment Plan (CTP), Care Closer to Home, Carly Lynch: Mental Health Lead at London Ambulance Service, Centre for Mental Health, Claire Murdoch: NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Coercion, Community Services, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs), Community-Based Services, Compassionate Care, Compulsory Community Treatment to Prevent Readmissions, Compulsory Detentions in Psychiatric Hospitals, Compulsory Hospitalisation, Compulsory Treatment Orders, Control of Patient's Care if Sectioned: Nominated Persons, Criminal Justice System (CJS), Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Prevention, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs), Crisis Response Teams (CRTs), Crisis Support, Criteria for Detention, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD), Delivering Race Equality (DRE) Programme, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Dignity, Dignity and Consent, Dignity and Respect, Dignity in Care, Disproportionate Proportion of Black and Minority Ethnic Groups Detained, Early Intervention and Prevention, East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, End-User Experience, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Ethnic Variations in Detention Under the Mental Health Act, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Experiences of Assessment and Detention Under Mental Health Legislation, Formal Legal Detentions (Under Mental Health Legislation), Fusion of MHA and MCA (Proposed), Gellinudd Recovery Centre (Hafal in Wales), Health and Care of People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, How the Law Should Change: Final Report of Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 Recommendations, Inappropriate Discharge and Aftercare: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, Independent Mental Health Act Review (2018), Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, Informal Admission, Information Sharing: Advance Care Plans, Learning Disability and Autism, Least Restriction, Length of Detention, Less Frequent Use of Police Cars to Transport Patients, Liberty Protection Safeguards, Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG), London Ambulance Mental Health Nurse and Paramedic Pioneer Scheme, Maintaining Contact with Family and Outside World, Mark Winstanley: Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, Mental Capacity, Mental Health Act (MHA), Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Health Act and Community Treatment Orders, Mental Health Aftercare, Mental Health and Community Services, Mental Health and Illness, Mental Health Car (London Ambulance Service Scheme), Mental Health Hospitals, Mental Health Legislation, Mode of Transport for Patients, Modernisation of Mental Health Act, Modernisation of Mental Health Care System, Nominated Person (NP) to Replace the Nearest Relative (Proposal), Opportunities to Challenge Detention (More Frequent), Organisational Competence Framework (OCF), Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF), Patient Autonomy, Patient Preferences, Patients in Criminal Justice System (CJS), Patients Treated as Rounded Individuals, Patterns of Compulsory Hospitalisation, Paul Farmer (Mind), Person as an Individual, Personal Preferences, Police Custody, Professor Sir Simon Wessely: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Wendy Burn: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Proportion of Re-Detentions Under Section 136 Within 90 Days of Previous Section 136 Detention, Psychiatric Hospitals, Recommendations in Final Report of Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, Reducing Compulsory Psychiatric Admissions, Reducing Mental Health-Related Hospital Admissions, Reducing the Use of Police Cells, Reduction in Use of Compulsory Treatment Orders, Requirement of Doctors to Record When and Why Patient Requests Ignored, Respect for Autonomy, Restraint and Restrictions, Restriction, Right to Carer Input, Right to Choose a Nominated Person to Control of Patient's Care if Sectioned, Rights of Patients to Challenge Their Treatment (Legal Extensions), Rising Rates of Compulsory Detentions in Psychiatric Hospitals, Safe and Compassionate Care, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD), Second Opinion Appointed Doctors, Section 117 Aftercare, Sectioning under the Mental Health Act, Service User Experience, Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health, Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health Services, Shared Decision-Making, Statement of Wishes and Preferences, Statutory Care and Treatment Plan (CTP), Suicide and Safety in Mental Health, Themes from the Mental Health Act Survey: Independent Mental Health Act Review (Centre for Mental Health), Therapeutic Benefit, Therapeutic Benefit: Patients Supported to Recover, Thinking Ahead - Advance Care Planning, Trisha Bain: Chief Quality Officer at London Ambulance Service, UK National Preventive Mechanism (UKNPM), United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), Use of Ambulances (Section 136 Conveyances), Use of Police Custody as a Place of Safety for People with Mental Health Needs, User Experience, Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)
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Exploring Lived Space as Experienced by Persons With Dementia (BMC Geriatrics)
Summary A systematic meta-synthesis concerning the broad topic of the experience(s) of space (whether physical, social or existential) on the part of persons living with dementia has identified four domains in the experience of “lived space”: (i) belonging (ii) meaningfulness … Continue reading →
Posted in For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), International, Management of Condition, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest
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Tagged Autonomy, Autonomy and Choice, Autonomy and Safety, Autonomy and Self-Determination, BMC Geriatrics, Dementia Experiences, Dementia Progression (Experiences), Department of Nursing and Health Promotion: Oslo Metropolitan University, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences: University College of Southeast Norway, Department of Public Health and General Practice: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Disease Progression, Existential Space, Experiences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences: University College of Southeast Norway, Faculty of Health Sciences: Oslo Metropolitan University, Hermeneutic Approaches, Hermeneutics, Lived Space, Lived Space (Physical Social or Existential), Lived Space: Space as Experienced by Persons With Dementia, Meaningful Activity, Meaningful Activity and Occupation, Meaningful Activity in Care Homes / Nursing Homes, Meaningful Activity in the Community, Meaningful Occupation, Meaningful Relationships, Meaningfulness, National Institute of Public Health, Nolan's Six Senses (Security Continuity Belonging Purpose Fulfilment and Significance), Norway, Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo Metropolitan University, Participant Lived Experiences, Patient and Carer Experiences, Patient Autonomy, Patient Experiences, Personal Security, Physical Space, Progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia, Qualitative Research, Quality Statement 1: Participation in Meaningful Activity, Respect for Autonomy, Safety and Security, Security, Security: Six Senses, Senses Framework (Security; Belonging; Continuity; Purpose; Achievement; Significance), Six Senses (Security Belonging Continuity Purpose Achievement Significance), Social Space, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, University College of Southeast Norway
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Right to Ask for Personal Health Budgets (NHS England)
Summary From April 2014, people with significant health needs and who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare can request their NHS team to provide their care through a personal health budget. Personal health budgets allow people to exercise more independence … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Allowance and Spend, Autonomy and Choice, Autonomy and Safety, Budget Management, CCGs, CCGs: Accelerated Development Programme, CHC: NHS Continuing Healthcare, Choice, Continuing Health Needs, Direct Payment, Direct Payment Support Services, Direct Payments, Independence, Independent Living, Individual Budgets, Mandate from the Government to NHS England, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC), NHS Mandate, Personal Health Budgets Pilot (PHBE) Project, Personalised Care Planning, Real Budgets Held by Third Parties (PHBs), Social Care, Staying Independent, Third-Party Arrangements, Tim Kelsey, Tim Kelsey: NHS National Director for Patients and Information, Types of User Choice
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Personal Health Budgets for Older People (SCIE Report 63)
Summary This SCIE Report No.63, entitled “Improving personal budgets for older people: a research overview”, examines the evidence from UK research between 2007 and 2012 concerning the implementation and uptake of personal budgets and direct payments for older people. It … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adults’ Services SCIE Report 63, Allowance and Spend, Autonomy and Choice, Autonomy and Safety, Budget Management, Carer-Controlled Organisations, Choice, Choice and Change Research Project, Contingency Planning, Continuity and Consistency, Direct Payment, Direct Payment Support Services, Direct Payments, Independence, Independent Living, Individual Budgets, Information and Advice, Information Needs of Carers, Information Needs of People with Dementia, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Personal Budgets, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Proxy Budget Holders, Risk Management, Staying Independent, Types of User Choice, User-Controlled Organisations, User-Led Organisations (ULOs)
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Factors in Patients’ and Carers’ Experiences of Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment (PLoS Medicine)
Summary Early diagnosis and intervention for people with dementia is becoming a priority, as has been reflected in the “Dementia Case Finding Scheme”. Some GPs are concerned about the effects of early diagnosis and disclosure on patients and carers, however. … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Anger (Upon Disclosure of Diagnosis, Assessment and Diagnosis, Autonomy and Safety, Barriers to the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Dementia in Primary Care, Breaking Bad News, Burden of Dementia, Burden on Caregivers, Care Transitions, Case Finding for Patients with Dementia, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care: University of Hertfordshire, Coping Strategies, Dementia Case Finding, Dementia Case Finding Scheme, Dementia Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Diagnosis and Assessment, Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Disclosure, Disclosure of Diagnosis, Early Diagnosis, Emotional Strategies, Experiences of Diagnosis, Experiences of the Transition to Dementia, Family Support, Fear (Upon Disclosure of Diagnosis, Feelings of Loss Anger Fear and Frustration, Frustration (Upon Disclosure of Diagnosis, Identity, Loss (Upon Disclosure of Diagnosis, Maintaining Identity, Managing Transitions, Patient and Carer Experiences of Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment, Patient and Carer Experiences of Diagnosis, Patient Experience, PLoS Medicine, Positive Mindsets, Practical Strategies, Reminders, Sense of Identity, Social Strategies, Strategies for Living, Survival After Diagnosis of Dementia, Transition, Transition from Cognitive Impairment to Dementia, Transition to Dementia: Individual and Family Experiences, Unequal Relationships, University of Hertfordshire
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