Mental health

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1. Top picks: Mental health resources for patients and staff

   • Mental health
   • Health inequalities
   • (and 8 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Mental health
     • Health inequalities
     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Eating disorder
     • Children and Young People
     • Dementia
     • Pandemic
     • Mens health
     • Medication
     • Top picks

   By Patient Safety Learning, 4 May

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   • 4 May

2. Significant changes for independent health and care providers of mental health services from April 2026: the Human Rights Act 1998 and “public authority” status (Bevan Brittan, 21 April 2026)

   • Mental health
   • Legal issue
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Legal issue
     • Private sector

   By Patient Safety Learning, 30 April

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   • 30 April

3. Health and Social Care Committee: Community Mental Health Service (Fourth Report of Session 2024–26)

   • Mental health
   • Health inequalities
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Lack of resources
     • Community care

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 February

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   • 3 February

4. Trusted information collection: severe mental illness (Patient Information Forum)

   • Mental health
   • Information sharing

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 20 January

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   • 268 views
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   • 20 January

5. Mind: The big mental health report 2025

   • Mental health
   • Health inequalities
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Health inequalities
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Long waiting list
     • Self harm/ suicide

   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 October, 2025

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   • 21 October, 2025

6. World mental health today: latest data (WHO, 2025)

   • Mental health
   • Data
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Data
     • Global health
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Funding
     • Self harm/ suicide

   By Patient Safety Learning, 25 September, 2025

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   • 25 September, 2025

7. I was an inpatient on a mental health ward – here’s what needs to change (HSJ, 17 June 2025)

   • Mental health
   • Organisation / service factors
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Person-centred care

   By Patient Safety Learning, 17 June, 2025

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   • 17 June, 2025

8. Most people receive support from community mental health services, but how safe are they? (28 April 2025)

   • Community care
   • Mental health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 May, 2025

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   • 8 May, 2025

9. CQC: Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2023/24 (13 March 2025)

   • Mental health
   • Mental health unit
   • (and 8 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Mental health unit
     • Mental health - CAMHS
     • Mental health - adult
     • Children and Young People
     • Health inequalities
     • Additional staff required
     • Lack of resources
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Regulatory issue

   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 March, 2025

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   • 14 March, 2025

10. Patient safety incidents within adult community-based mental health services in England: A mixed-methods examination of reported incidents, contributory factors, and proposed solutions (4 February 2025)

    • Mental health
    • Patient safety incident
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Patient safety incident
      • Adult
      • Community care
      • Research

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 February, 2025

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    • 11 February, 2025

11. Acute Behavioural Disturbance: preventing future deaths

    • Mental health
    • More staff training
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Mental health
      • More staff training
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Police
      • Young Adult
      • Observations

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 3 February, 2025

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    • 3 February, 2025

12. Harry’s story: Acute Behavioural Disturbance

    • Mental health
    • Young Adult
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Young Adult
      • More staff training
      • Patient death
      • Accident and Emergency

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 3 February, 2025

    • 2 comments
    • 2,362 views
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    • Comment by Patient_Safety_Learning
    • 11 February, 2025

13. The use and impact of surveillance-based technology initiatives in inpatient and acute mental health settings: a systematic review (29 November 2024)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Research
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Research
      • Mental health unit
      • Technology

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 February, 2025

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    • 424 views
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    • 1 February, 2025

14. Acute behavioural disturbance: a physical emergency psychiatrists need to understand (14 October 2020)

    • Mental health
    • Psychosis

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 27 January, 2025

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    • 27 January, 2025

15. Consensus on acute behavioural disturbance in the UK: a multidisciplinary modified Delphi study to determine what it is and how it should be managed (9 May 2023)

    • Mental health
    • Psychosis

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 27 January, 2025

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    • 554 views
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    • 27 January, 2025

16. Home Office and DHSC: Evaluating the implementation of Right Care, Right Person (3 December 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Organisation / service factors
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Social Care
      • Skills
      • Training
      • Policies
      • Police

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 December, 2024

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    • 11 December, 2024

17. Hundred Families website

    • Mental health
    • Patient death
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Patient death
      • Patient / family support
      • Criminal behaviour
      • Violence
      • Investigation

    By Patient Safety Learning, 21 November, 2024

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    • 21 November, 2024

18. What does ‘safe care’ mean in the context of community-based mental health services? A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of service users, carers, and healthcare providers in England (11 September 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Community care

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 October, 2024

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    • 414 views
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    • 4 October, 2024

19. Life Beyond the Cubicle: eLearning to support working well with families during mental health crises

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Confidence
    • (and 15 more)

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      • Patient / family involvement
      • Confidence
      • Personal reflection
      • Personal development
      • Patient safety strategy
      • Caldicott Guardian
      • Safety assessment
      • Person-centred care
      • Perception / understanding
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Second victim
      • Care plan
      • Service user
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Mental health unit
      • Community care facility
      • Mental health

    By Dorit, 1 October, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 859 views
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    • 1 October, 2024

20. Rapid response - Valdo Calocane: Report on Nottingham killer identifies catalogue of care failings (15 August 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Workforce management
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Workforce management
      • Lack of resources
      • Risk management

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 19 August, 2024

    • 1 comment
    • 917 views
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    • Comment by HelenH
    • 19 August, 2024

21. Special review of mental health services at Nottingham Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Part 2 (Care Quality Commission, 13 August 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Patient death
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Patient death
      • Criminal behaviour
      • Staff factors
      • Leadership
      • Organisational Performance
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Recommendations

    By Mark Hughes, 13 August, 2024

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    • 1,409 views
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    • 13 August, 2024

22. Madness by Peter Carter

    • Mental health
    • Organisation / service factors
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Criminal behaviour
      • Investigation
      • Relative

    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 August, 2024

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    • 12 August, 2024

23. Mental health crises: how to improve care (NIHR, 22 July 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Research
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Mental health
      • Research
      • Community care

    By Mark Hughes, 23 July, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 769 views
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    • 23 July, 2024

24. Primary care contact, clinical management and suicide risk following discharge from inpatient mental health care (12 June 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Primary care
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Primary care
      • Transfer of care
      • Discharge
      • Risk management
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Communication
      • Mental health unit

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 5 July, 2024

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    • 640 views
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    • 5 July, 2024

25. Staffing and antipsychotic medication use in nursing homes and neighborhood deprivation (24 April 2024)

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Care home
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Older People (over 65)
      • Care home
      • Medication
      • Mental health
      • Prescribing
      • Safe staffing
      • Deprivation

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 24 May, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 526 views
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    • 24 May, 2024