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Content ArticleSupportive observation and engagement practice is particularly challenging for all mental health service providers. This updated guide is an approved document by mental health nurse leaders and directors forum.
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Content ArticleMaintaining momentum highlights failings in specialist mental health services in England, and the devastating toll this takes on patients and their families. The report's findings provide fresh impetus to deliver on the recommendations set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
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Fragments of a half life – back to bedlam
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient stories
Powerful bog written by Alison Cameron about her experiences as a patient on a mental health unit. -
Content ArticleEvidence highlights the intrinsic link between nurse staffing and expertise, and outcomes for service users of healthcare, and that workforce retention is linked to the clinical and organisational experiences of employees. However, this understanding is less well established in mental health. This study from Cook et al. comprises a retrospective observational study carried out on routinely collected data from a large mental healthcare provider. Two databases comprising nurse staffing levels and adverse events were modelled using latent variable methods to account for the presence of multiple underlying behaviours. The analysis reveals a strong dependence of the rate of adverse events on the location and perceived clinical demand of the wards, and a reduction in adverse events where registered nurses exceed ‘clinically required levels’. In the first study of its kind, these findings present significant implications for nursing workforce policy and present an opportunity to not only improve safety but potentially impact nurse retention.
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Content ArticleThis seven-minute video from the US Suicide Prevention Resource Center describes the first part of the Patient Safety Screener, the Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3), a tool for identifying patients in the acute care setting who may be at risk of suicide. The PSS-3 can be administered to all patients who come to the acute care setting, not just those presenting with psychiatric issues. For those who are positive, the second part of the Patient Safety Screener, referred to as the ED-SAFE Secondary Screener, can be administered to guide suicide risk stratification.
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Content ArticlePeople should not be given medicines without their knowledge if they have the mental capacity to make decisions about their treatment and care. This guide from the National Institute for Healthcare Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is aimed at care home managers or anyone providing medicines support in care homes.
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Content ArticleThis guide is for organisations providing physical activity programmes or sessions for adults (18+) with mental health problems. It will support you to promote safeguarding, prevent abuse, and protect staff members and adults at risk. This guide was written with support of The Ann Craft Trust (ACT) and Mind. The ACT believe that every disabled child and every adult at risk deserves to be treated with the same respect and dignity as everyone else in society. They are a leading provider of safeguarding training, consultations and safeguarding adult reviews working closely with organisations and individuals across the UK to raise awareness and improve practice. Although the guide was developed for the sport's sector, the information and principles are also relevant to healthcare organisations.
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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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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. -
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.
