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Child and adolescent mental health services: purchasers' knowledge and plans
- Authors:
- VANSTRAELEN Michel, COTTRELL David
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 23.7.94, 1994, pp.259-261.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Reports the results of a telephone survey of all purchasers in the NE Thames RHA, who were questioned systematically about their purchasing plans for child and adolescent mental health. Purchasers' knowledge of the services they were purchasing were very limited. They had made little or no attempt to set quality standards or to monitor them. It is concluded that information about these services is so limited that purchasers would be unable to make informed decisions concerning changes in service patterns.
Work and employment for people with a mental health problem
- Author:
- McGREGOR Valerie
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 34, Summer 1994, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
In 1992 Ealing Health Authority, Ealing Social Services Department and Ealing MIND set up a jointly funded research project. The views of users and providers were used to frame a proposal for a community based work project for people with mental health problems.
Providing a community psychogeriatric service: models of community psychiatric nursing provision in a single health district
- Authors:
- JUNAID Ola, BRUCE Janet M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(9), September 1994, pp.715-720.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the provision of community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) within Nottingham Health Authority: major differences in CPN provision were found. There is a need to establish objective performance indicators in order to identify the most efficient and effective models for providing care to the elderly mentally ill in the community.
A stinging reminder of our shortcomings
- Author:
- BACKHOUSE Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, September 1994, p.12.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Local authorities must work closely with special hospitals if co-ordinated care programmes are to be achieved.
Still a bridge too far?
- Author:
- RUSSELL Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 3.2.94, 1994, p.13.
There is growing recognition that people with mental health problems and their carers can benefit from independent advocacy. Kirklees SSD, Dewsbury Health Care, Huddersfield Health and Dewsbury Community Health Council funded research to look at how advocacy should be developed locally.
Safety networks
- Authors:
- MILLINGTON Celia, SLATER Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 21.7.94, 1994, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes a joint approach to care programming in Derbyshire which concentrates on people with long-term and complex mental illness.