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Individual standards for intermediate care for older people with mental health difficulties
- Author:
- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper presents the standards and the early findings from the Department of Health funded national project on Intermediate Care for Older People with Mental Health difficulties. The project benchmarked the intermediate care service provision in seven sites across England during March and April 2006 against best practice standards developed by HASCAS. An overarching view is that is that there is often poor integration and understanding between mainstream older peoples intermediate care services and older peoples mental health services and that this results in sub optimal care.
Direct payments, independent living and mental health: an evaluation: executive summary
- Author:
- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act came into force in April 1997, and from April 2003, Local Authorities have been required to make direct payments to people who are assessed as eligible to receive them and want them, including people in contact with mental health services. However, most have not yet given serious consideration to the implementation of direct payments in mental health and the number of people with mental health needs who have taken up direct payments has remained low in comparison with other groups. The purpose of the National Pilot was to promote independent living through the increased take up of direct payments in mental health. It included five key components: the recruitment of Site Co-ordinators from within local service user networks; the setting up of Steering Groups to oversee the progress of the pilot; the organisation of All Sites Days at six monthly intervals to enable representatives from participating sites to discuss progress and share ideas about implementation;and the setting up of an e-mail discussion group and newsletter.
CAMHS to adult transition: HASCAS tools for transition: a literature review for informed practice
- Authors:
- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ADVISORY SERVICE, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 31p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The transition from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to an adult mental health service is necessary for young people whose mental health problems are likely to be both severe and enduring. A concern is that some young people fail to make the transition, usually for reasons of service design, configuration and ethos. This review of the literature on the CAMHS to adult transition aims is to collate and coordinate as much learning as possible and to be creative about ways of putting the learning into practice. The literature search used broad parameters, drawing in texts and information from a wide variety of sources. The report is separated into the following areas: the mental health of adolescents; the nature of transition; barriers to transition; and planning, delivering and improving services for adolescents and young adults. Each section ends with a summary of the key points identified from the literature.
A content analysis of direct payments policies in England: an evaluation: executive summary
- Author:
- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Under the provisions of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act (1996) disabled people have the legal right to receive payment of community care monies and to purchase their own care based on an agreed needs-led assessment, their eligibility under the Act and their eligibility for a community care payment. Despite a growth over time in the numbers of people in receipt of direct payments, wide variations persist in the availability of direct payments support schemes and in the take up of payments across care groups. This study aims to evaluate the process of direct payment policy implementation and the impact of social care modernisation on the availability of support schemes and on ensuring equity of access for users of physical disability, learning disability, mental health, older persons’ services and their carers.