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Leadership for change in mental health services
- Author:
- ONYETT Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article looks at how leadership in mental health services might begin to address the challenge of organisational change and describes the car programme approach aimed at delivering this change at a local level.
Leaders as developers of people, systems and process: a NIHME perspective
- Author:
- FITTON James
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Describes the work and strategy of the National Institute for Mental Health in England launched in July 2002.
Hospitals or prisons?: fear and trust in high security care
- Author:
- KAYE Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Argues that security cannot be an end in itself. The history of secure care clearly shows what can happen when the walls dominate. Patients may well be dangerous but hey are not demons. Hospitals must be secure but they are not fortresses. Compassionate caring remains the essence of therapeutic custody.
Developing leaders in mental health services
- Author:
- POND Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.3-9.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This paper describes the current focus on leadership development in the NHS within the programme of service modernisation and public sector reform, in particular the development of leadership in mental health services. Reference is made to management theory and how some of the ideas might apply in practice.
Patient's perceptions of entitlement to time in practice consultations for depression: qualitative study
- Authors:
- POLLOCK Kristian, GRIME Janet
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 28.09.02, 2002, pp.687-690.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Patient's self imposed restraint in taking up doctor's time has important consequences for the recognition and treatment of depression Doctor's need to have greater awareness of patient's anxiety about time and should move to allay such anxieties by pre-emptive reassurance.
Mental health policy implementation guide: community mental health teams
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
When the mental health implementation guide was published in March 2002, it was declared: 'community mental health teams, in some places known as primary care liaison teams, will continue to be the mainstay of the system. CMHTs have an important role to play in supporting service users and families in community settings'. The emphasis in this document is on identifying the functions which CMHTs will need to perform.
Psychiatry of learning disability: a future with mental health?
- Authors:
- ALEXANDER R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(8), August 2002, pp.299-301.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This article reports on a survey of consultants in the psychiatry of learning disability in four English regions. Their views on their core roles, job satisfaction and the the roles of management and restructuring were elicited.
Scottish survey of learning disability psychiatrists
- Authors:
- SMILEY S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(8), August 2002, pp.302-304.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Reports the results of a survey of learning disability psychiatrists in Scotland. It was found that service provision was variable and that this may warrant closer scrutiny.
First year strategy for NIMHE: meeting the implementation challenge in mental health
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The NIMHE is a new organisation based within the modernisation agency of the Department of Health. Its aim is to provide the quality of life for people of all ages who experience mental distress. Working beyond the NHS, the MIME provides a gateway to learning and development, through the establishment of local centres and national programmes of work.
Managed clinical networks: their relevance to mental health services
- Authors:
- HOLMES Jeremy, LANGMAACK Claus
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(5), May 2002, pp.161-163.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This article describes managed clinical networks, their strengths and limitations and possible applications to managing psychiatric services.