Home treatment provides brief, intensive care at home as an alternative to hospital admission. This article describes the work of the older people's home treatment team based at Penn Hospital at Wolverhampton, winners of the NIMHE Positive Practice Award for innovative commissioning. Their model reduces the risk of dependency and also helps older people re-engage with their families and communities.
Home treatment provides brief, intensive care at home as an alternative to hospital admission. This article describes the work of the older people's home treatment team based at Penn Hospital at Wolverhampton, winners of the NIMHE Positive Practice Award for innovative commissioning. Their model reduces the risk of dependency and also helps older people re-engage with their families and communities.
Subject terms:
home care, mental health problems, older people, community mental health services, commissioning;
The Mental Health Act 2007 passed into law on the 19th of July. This article looks at some of the fears of the Mental Health Alliance. The article highlights disappointments with the new community treatment order (CTO) and the Bournewood safeguards, which some argue does not provide sufficient independent safeguard.
The Mental Health Act 2007 passed into law on the 19th of July. This article looks at some of the fears of the Mental Health Alliance. The article highlights disappointments with the new community treatment order (CTO) and the Bournewood safeguards, which some argue does not provide sufficient independent safeguard.
Subject terms:
law, mental health, mental health problems, community mental health services, compulsory treatment;
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(7), March 2000, pp.222-223.
Publisher:
Pavilion
This article describes the work of Luton Building Bridges, a voluntary sector support service for families where a parent has mental health problems. Includes an interview with a user of the service.
This article describes the work of Luton Building Bridges, a voluntary sector support service for families where a parent has mental health problems. Includes an interview with a user of the service.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, service users, unmet need, voluntary sector, carers, community mental health services, families;
Looks at the development of horticulture as therapy for people with physical or mental health problems. Highlights a number of key projects.
Looks at the development of horticulture as therapy for people with physical or mental health problems. Highlights a number of key projects.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities, therapeutic horticulture, therapies, therapy and treatment, community mental health services, gardening;
Mental Health Care, 2(3), November 1998, pp.86-87.
Publisher:
Pavilion
Launched in 1991, the Thorn nurse training initiative aimed to produce a body of highly skilled, hands-on community mental health nurses to work with people with long-term serious mental illness. Asks whether Thorn nurses are an elite, a luxury, or the vanguard for a still more radical development of mental health education.
Launched in 1991, the Thorn nurse training initiative aimed to produce a body of highly skilled, hands-on community mental health nurses to work with people with long-term serious mental illness. Asks whether Thorn nurses are an elite, a luxury, or the vanguard for a still more radical development of mental health education.
Subject terms:
intervention, mental health problems, nurses, multidisciplinary services, severe mental health problems, training, community mental health nurses, community mental health services;