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Labour intensive
- Authors:
- FORD Richard, RYAN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 23.1.97, 1996, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on a study into the effectiveness of intensive community support for people with long-standing mental illness.
Is there anybody out there: a guide to recruiting volunteers in mental health
- Authors:
- BAGNALL Sandra, WARNER Lesley, FORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 31p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical text on recruiting, training and retaining volunteers in the mental health field.
Reasoning the needs
- Authors:
- FORD Richard, WARNER Leslie
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 30.5.96, 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Care for people with mental health problems is supposed to be needs-led. In this article the authors describe one method of establishing levels of needs which may be widely applicable.
Lines of enquiry
- Authors:
- ROSE Diana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.2.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A study has shown that people with severe mental health problems are capable of being involved in planning their care. The authors suggest new ways of finding out what service users think.
Doorstep delivery
- Authors:
- MINGHELLA Edana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 20.8.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on how a home care service for people with severe mental illness has reduced costs and proved popular with users.
Focal points
- Authors:
- MINGHELLA Edana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 11.12.97, 1997, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that the constant pressure on beds for psychiatric patients in inner cities could be reduced with better, and better targeted, community care. Presents the results of a study tracing the path of care in two trusts.
All for one or one for all?
- Authors:
- MINGHELLA Edana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 13.3.97, 1997, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Should community mental health be organised on a generic model or in specialist teams with different functions. This article investigates the options.
Talking it out
- Authors:
- BECK Ros, MINGHELLA Edana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.8.96, 1996, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Support for carers has moved up the political agenda in the light of the Carers Act. Describes how a project in south Wales is supporting people caring for relatives with a mental illness.
Independent and able to cope: evaluation of Working Together in London; an integrated mental health initiative
- Authors:
- LEE John, McCRONE Paul, FORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health,|King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 66p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is an evaluation of the 'Working Together in London project', set up by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the King's Fund and the DoH to support people with severe and long term mental health problems. This project examined the work of three assertive outreach teams in the capital. The full report of this project, draws out the key lessons for health and social care professionals, and offers guidance on how to put assertive outreach into practice.
Transforming mental health care: assertive outreach and crisis resolution in practice
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Anne, FORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The 'National Service Framework' calls for the creation of crisis resolution teams as an alternative to hospital admission for individuals experiencing acute mental health crises, and of assertive outreach teams for 'difficult to engage' people living in the community. This report focuses on the implementation of these teams, comparing sites across the country, and providing practical advice on both the benefits and difficulties of assertive outreach and crisis resolution. It highlights the importance of these teams as components of a wider system of mental health services, leading not just to the creation of discrete new services but to transformational change across the whole system.