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Indirect payments: practitioners' guide
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is designed to help social care practitioners work through the process of ensuring that people who lack capacity to make certain decisions about their lives are able to take advantage of the full range of options for receiving care and support, including direct payments. Each section gives practical hints and tips about the key stages in the process, covering: assessing whether a person has mental capacity to consent to a direct payment; making a ‘best interests’ decision about using an indirect payment; identifying an ‘authorised person’; managing an indirect payment; monitoring and reviewing an indirect payment; and ending an indirect payment. A selection of illustrative case studies is included. (Edited publisher abstract)
All things being equal: age equality in mental health care for older people in England
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 19p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people with mental health problems in England do not receive the same level or quality of care as younger people. This paper sets out the background to the current situation, based on evidence published by a range of organisations with an interest in the provision of older people's mental health care. It looks at the challenges and implications for the future posed by the increasing number of older people in England and makes recommendations aimed at ensuring older people receive the best possible health and social care and support on a fair and equitable basis.
Recovery in action project report
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recovery in Action was a two-year service improvement project developed by the Strategic Network for Mental Health, an alliance of four voluntary sector mental health provider organisations: Advance, Mind in Birmingham, Second Step and Sussex Oakleaf. The project explored ways of embedding recovery in mental health services. The key elements were to: develop a recovery training programme; produce a set of service user recovery outcomes; produce an outcomes measurement tool for recovery; produce a recovery checklist for organisations. Seven sites were identified to pilot new ways of recovery orientated working. The report summarises the key findings from the pilot projects and results of a formal evaluation exercise. Following a 'what we have learned section', the report concludes with recommendations for policy makers, commissioners, organisations, service delivery and a message to service users. The appendix includes the recovery checklist for organisations.
Mental capacity assessments: working in practice?: initial findings from the Mental Health Foundation's assessment of mental capacity audit tool (AMCAT)
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Foundation has developed online resources to help staff working in health and social care, including those in the private and voluntary sectors, as well as unpaid carers, to improve the way they assess mental capacity. The Assessment of Mental Capacity Audit Tool (AMCAT) provides a free, confidential and simple way for staff working in health and social care settings to audit and evaluate mental capacity assessment of individuals that they have been involved with. The tool also provides an instantaneous, automated report that indicates to the person who has completed the tool how well the assessment accorded with the Mental Capacity Act and its Code of Practice. This report provides initial findings from an assessment of the tool. It shows the reasons for carrying out the assessment, noting that the main reasons were that the person had dementia (38%), a mental illness (27%), or a learning disability (18%). Although 33% of respondents said that they carried out the assessment because the person was having a problem making a decision, 38% said they carried out the assessment because of the person's disability, history, diagnosis, illness, age, appearance, or behaviour. The report also outlines how assessments were carried out.