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Tag Archives: Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP)
National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on Psychotropic Medication (HQIP / RCP)
Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and Royal College of Psychiatrists have published a spotlight audit on the use of psychotropic medicines in the care of people with dementia in general hospitals in England and Wales. Psychotropic medication may … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Medication, Anticonvulsants: as Mood Stabilisers, Antidepressants, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Harm: Psychotropic Dosages and Drug Interactions, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia in General Hospital Inpatients, Dementia Medications, Discharge Medicines Review Service, Drugs for BPSD, Falls Prevention, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Hypnotics and Anxiolytics, Medicines Optimisation, Medicines Reconciliation, National Audit of Dementia (Care in General Hospitals), National Audit of Dementia (NAD), National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on Psychotropic Medication (2020), National Audit of Dementia Care in Hospitals, National Audit of Dementia: Spotlight Report on Psychotropic Medication, National Falls Prevention CQUIN, Patient Discharge, Patient Discharge Summaries, Patient Notes, Patient Records, Patient Safety, Patterns of Psychotropic Prescriptions, Potential Harms of Antipsychotic Use, Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs), Potentially Inappropriate Medicine Combinations, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP), Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People With Dementia, Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs For People With Dementia, Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs, Prescription of Psychotropic Medication Initiated in Hospitals for BPSD, Prescriptions Reviewed on Discharge, Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Psychotropic Drug Cessation, Psychotropic Drug Use (Antipsychotics Antidepressants Hypnotics Anxiolytics Anticonvulsants Antidementia Drugs), Psychotropic Drugs, Psychotropic Medication, Psychotropic Prescribing, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement, Reducing Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Dementia, Reducing Avoidable Harm, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Regular and PRN Prescriptions, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI), Royal College of Psychiatrists: National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement, Use of Antipsychotics for BPSD in UK Hospitals
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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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World Mental Health Day (WHO / BBC News / DHSC / Lancet / PHE / Education Policy Institute / NAO / HEE / APPG on Mental Health)
Summary Today is World Mental Health Day, which has aroused lots of announcements and initiatives. First Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care re-visited the national ambition for mental health to have … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, International, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
Tagged Access to Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, Access to Children’s Mental Health Services, Access to IAPT Services, Access to Mental Health Services, All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Mental Health, All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health, Anne Longfield: Children’s Commissioner for England, Assisting People with Mental Ill Health Back Into Work: Individual Placement and Support (IPS), Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Benefit Changes and Mental Health Problems, Buddhify: Meditation and Mindfulness app, CAMHS Services, Campaign to End Loneliness, Centre for Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Children and Young People’s Mental Health, Children's Commissioner for England, Claire Murdoch: NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Discrimination / Stigma, Economic Hardship Associated With Higher Demand for Mental Health Care, Education Policy Institute, Every Mind Matters Campaign (Mental Health Awareness), Every Mind Matters Campaign (PHE), Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (5YFVMH), Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: APPG on Mental Health Review (2018), Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Global Burden of Mental Illness, Global Mental Health, Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, Good Thinking, Heads Together Initiative, Helen Whately MP: Chair of the APPG on Mental Health, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services, Improving Access to Mental Health Services by 2020, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Improving Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (NAO), Individual Placement and Support (IPS): Helping People with Mental Ill Health Back Into Work, Investment in Mental Health, Investment in Mental Health Services, Jackie Doyle-Price: Suicide Prevention Minister, Jo Hutchinson: Director for Social Mobility and Vulnerable Learners at Education Policy Institute, Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, Long Waiting Times, Lynne Miller: IPS Grow National Lead, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Illness, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Support in Schools, Mental Health Support Teams, Mental Resilience, MHFA England, Mind, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Training, National Audit Office (NAO), NHS Tracker Service (BBC), NSUN, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Paul Farmer (Mind), PHE: Public Health England, Professor David Clark: Clinical Adviser to NHS England for IAPT, PTSD, Public Health England (PHE), Research Evidence for IPS: Centre for Mental Health, Rethink, Rethink Mental Illness, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Royal Foundation, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Ruth Sutherland: Samaritans CEO, Samaritans, Samaritans’ Helpline (Extra Funding), Self-Care, Self-Care Programmes, State of the Nation Report on World Mental Health Day (Annually 2019-), Stigma of Mental Health Problems, Stigma Reduction, Sue Baker: Director of Time to Change, Suicide Prevention Minister, Tackling Stigma and Improving Attitudes to Mental Illness, Time to Change, Time To Change (Mental Health Campaign), Unmet Mental Health Needs, Unmet Need, What Works Centre for Wellbeing, WHO: World Mental Health Day 2018, Workplace Stress, World Mental Health Day, World Mental Health Day (2018), Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World: WHO's World Mental Health Day 2018
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Cuts to Mental Health Early Interventions and Prevention (BBC News / Rethink Mental Illness / LSE / Community Care)
Summary A report from Rethink Mental Illness and the London School of Economics indicates that cuts to community-based mental health care could be costing the NHS millions in the long-run. Cuts to budgets involve fewer people receiving early intervention treatment and … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (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, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Mental Health Services, Admission Avoidance, Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Average Distances Travelled by Patients at CCGs and Local Area Teams, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, BBC Health News, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Bristol North Somerset Somerset and Gloucestershire Local Area Team, Care Integration, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, 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, CommunityCare (Online Journal), Dr Martin McShane: NHS England’s Director for People With Long Term Conditions, Far-Away Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, FOI: Freedom of information, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Freedom of Information, Great Yarmouth, Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Social Care Integration, HealthEast, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Inappropriate Far-Away Placements, Inappropriate OAPs (sic), Inappropriate Out of Area Treatments, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Investing in Recovery, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire Local Area Team, London School of Economics (LSE), Mental Health Early Interventions, Mental Health Patients Forced to Travel, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Services, Mental Health Taskforce, Mental Health Trusts, Mind, National Psychosis Summit, NHS Bristol CCG, NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG, NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG, NHS Vale of York CCG, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), 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, Paul Farmer (Mind), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Future Crises, Prevention, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Professor Wendy Burn: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Public Mental Health, Reducing Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Rethink, Rethink Mental Illness, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Support Networks, Support Networks (Friends and Family), Waveney
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