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Looking ahead: the next 25 years in mental health
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In the 25 years since the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development was established as a charity in 1985. This paper looks forward at the next 25 years. Leading commentators consider what they think the most important changes will be for people with mental health problems and for the mental wellbeing of society. They also discuss the change that should be made in policy and practice over the next 25 years.
The Bradley Report and the criminal justice workforce: tackling mental health and learning disabilities in the justice system
- Authors:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH, SKILLS FOR JUSTICE
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health; Skills for Justice
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In April 2009, the Bradley Report was published, making 82 recommendations which should lead to major changes in the way that individuals with mental health issues and those with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system are supported and treated. Thirty of the 82 recommendations have direct implications for the criminal justice workforce. This briefing paper outlines 4 key areas where significant activity is needed to develop the justice sector workforce to meet the ambitions and aims arising from the Bradley Report. The 4 key areas are: training in mental health and learning disability awareness for practitioners across the system; working together across agencies to treat individuals going through the system consistently and fairly; communicating information more effectively and efficiently so that individuals are not constantly reassessed or shuttled between services; and national workforce planning. This report highlights the changes needed in the approach to training individuals across criminal justice agencies, and makes recommendations as to how to take the work forward.
An evaluation of mental health service user involvement in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a Sainsbury Centre evaluation report on the process of involving people who use services in the re-commissioning of their day and vocational services. This report provides insight into what worked during re-commissioning day and vocational services, and should help anyone wishing to embark on the re-commissioning of day and vocational services in their own area. The service users remit included: contributing to the design of the review; conducting research including interviews with other service users; contributing to decisions on service redesign in light of the review findings; having input into the development of service specifications for the new configuration; participating in selecting future providers through the tendering process. This report examines feature that worked well with the service users, and featured that did not work so well, and makes suggestions for future service user involvement, such as greater clarity of purpose, more attention to detail, more openness, and issues relating to conflict management and resolution.
Mental health inequalities: measuring what counts: partnership seminar, 16 March 2009, Royal Institute of British Architects
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A World Health Organisation report has posited that mental health is the lynchpin between economic and social inequalities, and poor mental health is a significant cause of wider problems, such as unemployment, low educational standards, low income, reduced standard of living and poor physical health. This paper is based on a seminar organised jointly by Sainsbury Centre and the Department of Health in 2009, arguing that public services do not routinely collect data on mental health inequalities and that the information they do collect is not used to its full potential. It calls for better information to be collected and used to measure inequalities in mental health and the life chances of people with mental health problems.