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About time: commissioning to transform day and vocational services
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, SEYMOUR Linda, POZNER Adam
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 104p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People with severe mental health problems must be offered more and better practical support to achieve their hopes and ambitions, according to a new Sainsbury Centre guide for health and social care commissioners. About Time, by Helen Lockett, Linda Seymour and Adam Pozner, sets out how day and vocational services can make radical changes to offer people the support they need to build the lives they want for themselves. It argues that investment is tied up in day and vocational services which often only offer sheltered and segregated support for people with mental health problems rather than giving people the support to get jobs and pursue their interests. About Time shows how primary care trusts and county council commissioners can turn their services around by finding out what their users want, drawing on the available evidence of what works and building new forms of support. It shows that involving service users from the start of a process of radical change is crucial to its success.
The community order and the mental health treatment requirement
- Authors:
- SEYMOUR Linda, RUTHERFORD Max
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 23p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is estimated that half of people on community orders have at least one mental health problem, yet fewer than one per cent of community orders issued in 2006 contained a requirement for mental health treatment. The report looks at the mental health treatment requirement and examines barriers to its use for offenders in the community. This marks the beginning of research into the Community Order and the mental health treatment requirement as part of the criminal justice programme.
Improving access to primary care
- Authors:
- SEYMOUR Linda, MORRIS Brigid
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2007, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
In 2006 the Disability Rights Commission completed a formal enquiry into the inequalities in physical health and care experienced by people with mental health problems and learning disabilities. As part of this inquiry the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health interviewed mental health service users, people with learning disabilities, carers and health and social care professionals, managers, GP reception staff and advocates in three primary care trust areas in England and one local health board in Wales. This article reports findings from this research, highlighting both problems areas and examples of good practice. The article also suggests solutions that may help to address the inequalities in physical health and care experienced by people with mental health problem and learning disabilities.
Not all in the mind: the physical health of mental health service users
- Author:
- SEYMOUR Linda
- Publisher:
- Mentality
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 41p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People with severe and enduring mental health problems are at increased risk for physical illness, much of which is undetected. This report, based on qualitative research with service users, looks at user perspectives on all aspects of physical health, from exercise to smoking cessation. The report makes a series of recommendations for improving physical health care for people with mental health problems.