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Together we stand: effective partnerships; key indicators for joint working in mental health
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Mary, VILLENEAU Louise, HILL Robert
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Set of key indicators focusing on the essential elements required to achieve effective joint working between agencies responsible for planning, commissioning and providing mental health services. Includes the indicators on disc.
Better care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions. A guide for commissioners and service providers
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 66
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance supports the commissioning and provision of effective care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions. It is aimed at commissioners and providers of mental health and alcohol and drug treatment services. It also has relevance for support services that have contact with people with co-occurring conditions, including people experiencing mental health crisis. The guidance supports the principles of ‘everyone’s job’ and ‘no wrong door’, which emphasise the joint responsibility of alcohol and drug, mental health and other services to work collaboratively to meet the needs of people with co-occurring conditions. It encourages commissioners and service providers to work together to improve access to services which can reduce harm, improve health and enhance recovery, enabling services to respond effectively and flexibly to presenting needs and prevent exclusion. Links to additional resources are included. The guidance supports implementation of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and represents an action from the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat national action plan. (Edited publisher abstract)
Substance misuse and mental health
- Author:
- PETERS Zelda
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2010, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Thirty percent of mental health service users and 50% of substance misuse service users experience a combination of mental health and substance misuse problems to a greater or lesser degree. Yet the commissioning of these services remains largely focused on a single diagnosis. This article, including a brief case study, looks at some of the challenges surrounding dual diagnosis, and how the relevant services should respond. The author comments that flexible multidisciplinary and multi-agency training needs to be in place to ensure shared practice and ethos around dual diagnosis, and that commissioning of services needs to recognise and focus more on joint services. Research suggests that people accessing services tend to be experts in their own care, and should be listened to, and that they need access to local services where they do not have to repeat the same conversation simply because professionals fail to share information adequately. The author concludes by stating that by following these simple steps, services and commissioners can greatly improve the outcomes for those with a dual diagnosis.
Progress and challenges in the transformation of children and young people's mental health care: a report of the Education Policy Institute's Mental Health Commission
- Author:
- FRITH Emily
- Publisher:
- Education Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 47
- Place of publication:
- London
This report explores progress made since the publication of the Coalition Government’s strategy, Future in Mind, in 2015 to transform mental health care for children and young people in England. It also identifies key barriers and risks that could hinder the process of transformation. The report was based on analysis of local transformation plans, a call for evidence distributed to key stakeholders in the field of children and young people’s mental health, interviews with professionals and a freedom of information request to child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) providers. The report shows a wide variation in progress achieved so far. Positive changes identified, including: the development of plans in every area of the country, although these varied in quality with only 15 per cent seen as 'good', 48 per cent 'require improvement' and 37 per cent 'require substantial improvement; gathering of national data to inform service improvement; and local health and care leaders working together to coordinate the design of new services. However the report also identified six barriers to progress, including: workforce, both recruitment difficulties and training needs; funding, with failure to ring-fence budgets allocated to local areas; the complexity and quality of local commissioning; the need for better data to plan services; fragmentation of services; and intervening too late. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child and adolescent mental health services: an operational handbook
- Editors:
- RICHARDSON Greg, PARTRIDGE Ian, BARRETT Jonathan, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- RCPsych Publications
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 323p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
A practical guide to the way in which child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) work. The book explains in operational terms how services can be delivered in ways in which children, families and other agencies can understand, that are as local to the child and family as possible, that are helpful to educational, social, voluntary and other partner agencies and that allow clear commissioning processes. The operation of each of the four tiers of service provision is clearly described with specific examples at each tier. Emphasis is placed on the inter-agency working within each tier of services. The book is based on legislation in England, though much of this is also relevant to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It includes substantial updates since the first edition.
Child and adolescent mental health services: an operational handbook
- Editors:
- RICHARDSON Greg, PARTRIDGE Ian
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 214p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a crucial time for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). They have to integrate with all the other current children’s initiatives and develop in line with the Children’s National Service Framework to ensure the mental health needs of all children are met. The book explains in operational terms how services can be delivered in ways in which children, families and other agencies can understand, that are as local to the child and family as possible, that are helpful to educational, social, voluntary and other partner agencies and that allow clear commissioning processes. The operation of each of the four tiers of service provision is clearly described with specific examples at each tier.
People who are homeless: mental health services; a place in mind; commissioning and providing mental health services for people who are homeless
- Editors:
- WILLIAMS Richard, AVEBURY Kina
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 166p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this thematic review is to offer information and guidance on the commissioning and provision of mental health services to people who are homeless. While the review is mainly addressed to NHS managers, much of the material relates to the social services and housing departments of local authorities. The main thrust of this report is on joint working. The authors of the review are aware that homelessness on its own, or in association with mental health problems, is not always recognised as a major issue by health and social services managers, and that the particular needs of a highly vulnerable group of people may, therefore, remain unmet. This report examines the characteristics of the homeless population and identifies the specific challenges that it presents both to managers, in their development of strategy for commissioning, and to front-line providers in services. This report identifies examples of good practice across England and Wales.