Category: Public Mental Health

Liaison psychiatry for every acute hospital: integrated mental and physical health

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 30, 2014

By Royal College of Psychiatrists (2013)

This report summarises existing evidence of need for liaison psychiatry services in all acute hospitals and then provides evidence for the range of problems addressed, and range of interventions required, to meet core mental health demands in acute hospitals. It also contains case examples that demonstrate the benefit of services; provide detailed considerations for service design, including principle organisational standards, access and response standards, hours of operation, remit and staffing; governance is addressed as a range of clinical and organisational risks and how these can be reduced by liaison psychiatry services are described. Lastly, key considerations required to set local standards for common mental health-related problems that occur in acute hospitals are provided.

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Community Public Mental Health

Mental Health and community services

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 13, 2014

By Mental Health Network NHS Confederation (2013)

This briefing explores the opportunities and good practice currently developing in ‘combined’ or ‘integrated’ trusts, as well as the challenges. It considers whether this growing trend is good for mental health and community services and what the consequences might be.

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Public Mental Health Well-Being

No health without mental health: mental health dashboard

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 13, 2014

By Department of Health (December 2013)

The first annual mental health dashboard aims to show progress against the objectives set out in the ‘No health without mental health’ strategy. The dashboard includes information on: mental health services; the physical wellbeing of people with mental health problems; and experiences of stigma and discrimination.

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WHO MiNDbank

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 13, 2014

By World Health Organisation (2013)

This database presents a range of information about mental health, substance abuse, disability, human rights and the different policies, strategies, laws and service standards being implemented in different countries. Users can review policies, laws and strategies and search for best practices and success stories in the field of mental health.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Public Mental Health Well-Being

Overlooked and forgotten: a review of how well children and young people's mental health is prioritised in the current commissioning landscape

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 23, 2013

By Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition (2013)

This report offers support and recommendations to health and wellbeing boards on how they can prioritise and address children and young people’s mental health. It is based on a review of 145 joint strategic needs assessment (JSNAs) and 142 joint health and wellbeing strategies (JHWSs).

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Community Integrated Care Public Mental Health

Patient suicide: the impact of service changes: a UK wide study

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 23, 2013

By National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (November (2013)

This report argues that mental health service providers looking after patients at risk of suicide need to reduce absconding on in-patient wards and boost specialist community services like crisis resolution to reduce deaths.

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Community Public Mental Health

A fresh start for the regulation and inspection of mental health services: Working together to change how we regulate, inspect and monitor specialist mental health services

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 20, 2013

By Care Quality Commission (2013)

This document outlines the new approach that CQC will be taking to the inspection of mental health services. The updated inspections will put a greater emphasis on inspecting the care that people with mental health problems receive in the community.

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Learning Disabilities Public Mental Health

Green Light Toolkit 2013

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 20, 2013

By NDTi (National Development Team for Inclusion) (2013)

A guide to auditing and improving your mental health services so that it is effective in supporting people with autism and people with learning disabilities.

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Care of the Elderly Dementia Minority Groups Public Mental Health

Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and dementia: where are we now?

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 16, 2013

By Race Equality Foundation (November 2013)

In a new briefing paper, produced as part of the Race Equality Foundation’s Better Health collection, David Trustwell argues that a more targeted approach for black and minority ethnic people with dementia and their carers is essential. Highlighting an innovative pathway approach to living well with dementia, Trustwell suggests using ‘community dementia navigators’, befrienders who provide support to people living with dementia and help them to find their way around the health and social care system. Furthermore, by providing improved training in cultural competency amongst professionals across the care pathway, people with dementia from black and minority ethnic communities can be supported throughout their diagnosis and treatment. He argues that such an approach would help to tackle rising costs by reducing the rate of transfers to more expensive residential care, and the number of costly unscheduled hospital admissions or transfers to residential care for complex, late presenting black and minority ethnic patients who have been living with undiagnosed dementia needs.

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