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Independent Mental Health Act Review (BBC News / DHSC / Centre for Mental Health / NHS England)

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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) | Leave a comment

Reducing Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities (BBC News / HQIP)

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and the University of Bristol’s Norah Fry Research Centre have published an interim update report, commissioned by NHS England, on the premature deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care. The Learning … Continue reading →

Inequalities in Health and Care of People With Learning Disabilities (BBC News / NHS Digital)

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS Digital’s report on the health and care of people with learning disabilities, based on information from over half of GP practices in England between 2014 and 2016, has identified continuing health inequalities in terms of differences in the … Continue reading →

Posted in 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Care, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Access to Healthcare Services, Annual Learning Disability Health Checks, Barriers to Support, BBC Health News, Community Services, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, GP's Learning Disability Register, Health and Care of People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Learning Disabilities in the UK, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities in England, Learning Disabilities: Increasing the Take-Up of Routine Health Checks, Learning Disability Health Checks, Life Expectancy of People With Learning Disabilities, NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), NHS Health Checks, NHS Health Checks Programme, Number of Deaths in People With Learning Disabilities Compared With General Population, Obesity Prevalence in People Aged 18-35 With Learning Disabilities, People With Learning Disabilities, Percentage of Patients Known to Their GP as Having a Learning Disability Who Received a Flu Immunisation, Percentage of Patients Known to Their GP as Having a Learning Disability Who Received an Annual Learning Disability Health Check, Percentage of Patients Known to Their GP as Having a Learning Disability Who Received Screening in 2014-15 / 2015-16 for Breast Cancer, Percentage of Patients Known to Their GP as Having a Learning Disability Who Received Screening in 2014-15 / 2015-16 for Cervical Cancer, Percentage of Patients Known to Their GP as Having a Learning Disability Who Received Screening in 2014-15 / 2015-16 for Colorectal Cancer, Primary Care (GPs), Protecting Vulnerable People, Reducing Health Inequalities, Registration With Family Doctor as Having a Learning Disability to Access Extra Support, Underweight Prevalence in People Aged Over 64 With Learning Disabilities, Uptake of Health Checks for Adults with Learning Disabilities, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People | Leave a comment

More Transparency Enforced in NHS Hospital Trusts (BBC News / CQC)

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s final report on how NHS trusts review and investigate unexpected mortality in hospital patients in England concludes that a culture of learning from avoidable patient deaths has not been given sufficient priority, either nationally … Continue reading →

Care Quality Commission Review of How NHS Trusts Investigate Unexpected Deaths (CQC / BBC News)

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is planning a thorough investigation into how well NHS Trusts investigate unexpected deaths and whether they then learn from these investigations. This review follows the Mazars Report, commissioned by NHS England, which investigated the … Continue reading →

Quality Checkers: Efforts to Reduce Learning Disabilities-Related Barriers to Accessing NHS Services (NHS England)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS Quality Checkers Programme will involve people with learning disabilities helping to inspect their local NHS services and offer advice on how these can be re-designed to better meet their needs (and the needs of other patients). Tools … Continue reading →

Commissioning of Services for People With Learning Disabilities: Latest “Challenge Ahead” Report (BBC News / ACEVO / NHS England / HEE)

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Sir Stephen Bubb, author of the “Winterbourne View: Time for Change” (2014) report, has recommended that the role of a Learning Disabilities Commissioner is required to promote and protect the rights of people with learning disabilities in England. Full … Continue reading →

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