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Stronger code: better care. Government response to the Consultation on the Mental Health Act 1983: code of practice
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 90
- Place of publication:
- London
This document summarises responses and key theme identified from the consultation on revising the Mental Health Act 1983: Code of Practice. The consultation gave respondents an opportunity to evaluate how policies are being delivered and realised in practice, in areas including the use of restrictive interventions, seclusion, use of police powers to detain people in places of safety, and the use of community treatment orders. The consultation received almost 350 responses. Details are provide of the major changes made to the specific Code chapters and what respondents wanted to change, but have remained as they are. (Edited publisher abstract)
Achieving better access to mental health services by 2020
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the government plan to end the disparity of esteem for mental health and achieve better access to mental health services. This comprises a first phase in 2014-15 in which substantial investments will be targeted to end the practice of young people being admitted to mental health beds far away from where they live, or from being inappropriately admitted to adult wards; to support people in mental health crisis; and to boost early intervention services, that help some of the most vulnerable young people to get well and stay well. The second phase, from next year, will see the introduction of access standards and waiting time standards for mental health services, with the aim to deliver: treatment within 6 weeks for 75 per cent of people referred to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, with 95 per cent of people being treated within 18 weeks; treatment within 2 weeks for more than 50 per cent of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Additional targeted investment is also promised to help people in crisis to access effective support in more acute hospitals. Subject to future resourcing decisions following the next Spending Review, the final phase from 2016 to 2020, would see the continuous staged roll out of these new access and waiting time standards across the whole of mental health services in England. (Edited publisher abstract)
Closing the gap: priorities for essential change in mental health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
In 2011, the government published its mental health strategy, ‘No health without mental health’, which set out long-term ambitions for mental health care. ‘Closing the gap’ considers shorter-term action and how changes in local service planning and delivery will make a difference, in the next two or three years, to the lives of people with mental health problems. It identifies 25 aspects of mental health care and support where people can expect to experience the fastest changes The 25 priorities are each organised into one of these main themes: increasing access to mental health services; integrating physical and mental health care; starting early to promote mental wellbeing and prevent mental health problems; and improving the quality of life of people with mental health problems. Further information sources are suggested. (Original abstract)