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Content ArticleBetween 2014 and 2016, NHS England worked with staff and patients in four mental health trusts to improve the cardiovascular (CVD) health outcomes and reduce premature mortality in people with serious mental illness. This toolkit is based on the independent evaluation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the four NHS England pilot sites
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Content ArticleIn March 2015, Norman Lamb MP launched 'Future in Mind' at The King’s Fund, and the government committed to spending an extra £1.25 billion on Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) funding over the next five years. Six months on, this conference provided a key opportunity to examine the progress that had been made in transforming service provision and commissioning.
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Content ArticleNHS England awarded 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' (IAPT) services in the Oxford AHSN region ‘Early Implementer’ funding to lead the way in setting up integrated treatments for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) alongside mental illness. Four of the first 22 services selected nationally were in the Oxford AHSN region. This study was carried out by health economist Professor David Stuckler, formerly of the University of Oxford, now based at the University of Bocconi, Italy, supported by NHS South, Central West Commissioning Support Unit. It focused on one of the first groups of patients (more than 450 people) who started receiving new integrated IAPT-LTC treatments in 2017.
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NHS's summary of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Claire Cox posted an article in Best interests and capacity
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is designed to protect and empower people who may lack the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care and treatment. It applies to people aged 16 and over. The NHS provides a summary of the Act.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Parliamentary Healthcare Service Ombudsman published 'Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients' in December 2017. The families who brought forward their complaints helped uncover serious issues that required national attention. The failings catalogued in the report highlighted a systemic set of problems in relation to identifying, treating and monitoring eating disorders that require a systemic response. This encompasses raising awareness among clinicians, building greater specialist capability and ensuring adult eating disorder services achieve parity with child and adolescent services. This submission provides an overview of the report’s systemic findings and the responses seen to the systemic recommendations made to date.
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Content ArticleWhat is patient and public involvement in mental health research? Why is it important? How can people get involved? The Oxford Health and Biomedical Research Centre launched a short animated film to answer these questions and share the patient and public involvement work they are doing.
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AQuA: Suicide prevention toolkit (May 2017)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Suicide and self-harm
This toolkit from the Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA)is for anyone involved in designing, delivering, providing or commissioning suicide prevention services/support. The aims of this toolkit are to share information on mental health services/support, considering what ‘good’ looks like, and to provide an approach to implementing high quality/effective mental health services/support.