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Content ArticleThe Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland's Improvement Hub (IHUB) supporting improvement across health and social care. This is a unique national programme that aims to improve the safety of healthcare and reduce the level of harm experienced by people using healthcare services. SPSP Mental Health is working with the Scottish Government and partners to deliver the 'Mental Health Strategy: 2017 - 2027', which has meant that the SPSP-MH programme is now expanding its remit from inpatient units to include child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), perinatal services, older peoples services, learning disabilities, as well as community.
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RCPSYCH: COVID-19 Support for patients and carers
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Guidance
Many people will be experiencing anxiety about their health and safety during this time. This page provides information about COVID-19 and how to manage your mental health during the pandemic. Guidance includes advice on accessing treatment and medication. -
Content ArticleThis report by NHS Digital presents findings from the third in a series of follow up reports to the 2017 Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) survey, conducted in 2022. The sample includes 2,866 of the children and young people who took part in the MHCYP 2017 survey. It looks at the mental health of children and young people aged 7 to 24 years living in England in 2022, as well as examining their household circumstances, and their experiences of education, employment and services and of life in their families and communities.
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Content ArticleLast week, one of the country’s largest child and adolescent mental health services, Forward Thinking Birmingham, run by Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust, was rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission. The inspection report makes for concerning reading — not least because it speaks to a range of issues being experienced by other providers of CAMHS services across the country. CQC inspectors warned there were not enough nursing and support staff to keep people using community services from avoidable harm. Nurses told the CQC that vacancies in the service impacted on people being allocated a care coordinator — and staff were leaving largely due to handling caseloads they felt were unsafe. Part of HSJ’s Mental Health Matters fortnightly briefing, covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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Content ArticleIn this report, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) comments on progress following publication of its 'Out of sight – who cares?' report in October 2020, and highlights the main areas where further work is still needed.
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Content ArticleThis non-statutory guidance from the UK Government aims to support education, health and care settings and services in putting in place measures which will help them: understand the needs of children and young people, including the underlying causes of and triggers for their behaviour. develop strategies and plans to meet those needs and regularly review them as children change. adapt the environments in which children and young people are taught and cared for so as better to meet their needs. provide appropriate support for children and young people whose behaviour challenges, without the use of restraint or restrictive intervention. It sets out relevant law and guidance and provides a framework of core values and key principles to support: a proactive approach to supporting children and young people whose behaviour challenges. a reduction in the need to use restraint and restrictive intervention.
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Content ArticleImproving and widening access to care for children and adults needing mental health support is a key priority for the NHS, as outlined in the Long Term Plan. Tthe West of England AHSN are working with NHS commissioners and providers, industry partners, other AHSNs, local trusts, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and community providers on a wide range of initiatives to support their work to improve mental healthcare and wellbeing.
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Content ArticleSamantha Gould was 16 years old when she died by suicide due to an overdose of prescribed medication on 2 September 2018. She had borderline personality disorder that meant she was at risk of deliberate self-harm and suicide. In this report, the Coroner highlights concerns about a systemic weakness in the way in which Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and primary care communicate with local pharmacies concerning 16-18 year old patients who are at risk of deliberate overdose. In spite of a safety plan agreed with Sam’s consultant psychiatrist whereby Sam’s parents would be responsible for her medication, Sam was able to pick up older prescriptions on 1 September 2018 without challenge, and it was those medications that were fatal in the combined amounts ingested by Sam.
