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Tag Archives: Mental Health Services
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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Dementia Assessment and Referral to GPs: DeAR-GP (NICE / HIN)
Summary It was already known that between 75% – 89% of care home residents have dementia, but many of these persons do not receive a diagnosis. The Health Innovation Network (HIN) worked with five care homes to design the Dementia … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Services, Activity in Care Homes, Adult Mental Health Services, AMT-4 (Abbreviated Mental Test – 4) Case-Finding Tools, Assessment and Referral, Best Practice in Care Homes, Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes: Last Year of Life, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Case Finding, Case Finding for Patients with Dementia, Case Finding in Care Home Sector, Commissioning for Excellence in Care Homes, Community Mental Health, Community Referrals, Confusion in Care Homes, Delirium in Care Homes, Dementia (QS1), Dementia Assessment Referral to GP (DeAR-GP), Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia Case Finding, Dementia Case-Finding Tools (Evaluation in Care Homes), Dementia Support Services in Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Department of HealthCare Management, Diagnosis and Referral, Elderly Mental Health, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University (Greifswald Germany), Faculty of Law and Economics: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany, Health Innovation Network (HIN), Identification and Referral, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Living Well in Care Homes, Memory Assessment Services, Memory Assessments, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health Services, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Mental Wellbeing of Older People in Care Homes, Mental Wellbeing of Older People in Care Homes (QS50), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NICE Quality Standard 1 (QS1), NICE Quality Standards, Nursing Older People, Nursing Standard, People with Dementia in Care Homes, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Rapid Diagnosis and Referral, Referral, Referral Protocols, Residential Care Homes, South London, Timely Referral, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population, Wellbeing in Later Life
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Five Year Forward View For Mental Health: Government’s Response (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary The government has published a response to the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s “NHS Five Year Forward View for Mental Health” report, as produced for NHS England. The government accepts all of the taskforce report’s 58 recommendations, in full. Responses … Continue reading
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Psychiatric Patients, Access and Choice, Access to Mental Health Services, Acute And Crisis Care, Adult Mental Health Care Clusters, Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Adult Mental Health: Common Mental Health Problems, Adult Mental Health: Community, Adult Mental Health: Secure Care Pathway, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) in England, Aging and Mental Health, BBC Health News, BBC’s Panorama, Calderdale Council, Camden Council, Capitated Payment Approach for Mental Health, Care Planning, Care Planning (Community), Care Planning (Inpatient), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Transformation Plans, Children and Young People’s Mental Health, Choice of Treatments, Common Mental Health Problems (CMHP), Common Outcome Standards For Mental Health, Community Mental Health Profiles (CMHP), Community Mental Health Services, CQC, Crisis Care Concordat, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs), Dashboard For Mental Health, Debt and Mental Health Evidence Form, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delivering Parity of Esteem, Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP), Early Referral to Mental Health Services, Employment Advisors in Psychological Therapy Services, Ending the Hidden Injustice of Mental Illness (Theresa May’s Shared Society Theme), Episodic Payment Approach for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: Government Response (January 2017), Five Year Forward View Mental Health Taskforce, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Government’s Response to Five Year Forward View For Mental Health, Health Debt Form: Debt and Mental Health Evidence Form, Health Debt Form: Extorting Money From Patients for Documentation for Proof of Mental Health Issues, Health Education England, Healthcare Safety 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An Emerging Consensus on the State of NHS and Social Care Funding? (BBC News / Health Foundation / King’s Fund)
The Health Select Committee, chaired by Dr Sarah Wollaston, have addressed the much-debated question about whether the NHS has enough funding for sustainability. The main concern is about cuts to local authority budgets for social care (and public health). The … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing Population, Alan Johnson MP, Alastair Campbell, Andrew Mitchell MP, Anita Charlesworth: Director of Research and Economics at the Health Foundation, Anita Charlesworth: Health Foundation, BBC Health News, Commons Health Select Committee, Elderly Failed By Shameful Care System (Allegation From Age UK and Alzheimer’s Society), Equality 4 Mental Health, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Health Select Committee (HSC), House of Commons Health Select Committee, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister (Coalition Government), Litigation Risks For Councils: Failure to Meet Statutory Duties Under Care Act, Mental Health Funding, Mental Health Services, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding and Rationing, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Overspends, NHS Performance, Open Letter From Sarah Wollaston of Commons Health Select Committee to Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP (October 2016), Rationing, Rationing Care, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Rt Hon John Reid MP, Rt Hon. Alan Milburn, Rt Hon. Frank Dobson MP, Rt Hon. Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Rt Hon. Patricia Hewitt, Rt Hon. Stephen Dorrell: Former Secretary of State for Health (1995-1997), Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Submissions Ahead of Chancellor Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement (2016), Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures
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