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Promoting care and justice: report of the Mental Health Foundation's regional conference on improving services for mentally disordered offenders
- Editor:
- NEWMAN Caroline
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains conference papers on: defining terms and identifying issues; multi-agency approaches; needs assessment and service delivery; and suggestions for core tasks for improving services to offenders with mental health problems and for research and development work.
Guidance on the discharge of mentally disordered people and their continuing care in the community
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular drawing the attention of purchasers and providers of local authority social services guidance issued to health authorities on 10 May 1994 on good practice in the discharge of mentally disordered patients.
MERIT still in the pioneering role
- Authors:
- DAY Tony, LOMAS Dr Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(2), December 1994, pp.29-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
A pioneering multi-disciplinary team formed to help elderly people with mental health problems and their carers is now facing the challenge of fitting into a authority-wide commissioning and care management. The successes and failures of the Middleton Elderly Resource and Intervention Team (MERIT) are described.
Mission impossible
- Author:
- FAULKNER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.9.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
According to a new enquiry report from the Mental Health Foundation government policy is undermining community care for people with severe mental health illness. The inquiry team, led by Sir William Utting found services to be confused, fragmented, under-resourced, and all too frequently failed to meet the needs of their clients. The conclusions of the report are summarised and the key recommendations are outlined.
The right diagnosis
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.6.94, 1994, p.15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Choices is the first advisory centre in the country for black people with alcohol-related problems. The centre is funded by Alcohol Concern and the South East London Health Authority, which commission services on behalf of Lewisham, Lambeth, and Southwark. Its aim is to help those misdiagnosed as mentally ill get to the root of the problem by overcoming drug dependency. Reports on the centre's work.
Mental health: someone to watch over me
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.5.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Suicide, depression, and isolation are just three of the consequences of allocating fewer case workers to people with severe mental health problems. Looks at the ways in which social services can help these vulnerable clients
Factors influencing the implementation of the care programme approach
- Authors:
- NORTH Cathy, RITCHIE Jane, WARD Kit
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 130p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study evaluating the working of the care programme approach (CPA) for people referred to specialist psychiatric services. The approach required district health authorities, in collaboration with social services departments, to design and implement systematic arrangements for deciding whether a patient can be treated in the community, and if so, ensuring that they receive the necessary health and social care.
Implementing caring for people: the role of the GP and primary healthcare team
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 30p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of a series of studies looking into the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. This paper made recommendations for changes and improvements to the implementation process, where it involves GP's and primary health care teams, under the following headings: referrals for assessment; assessment; care management; discharge from hospital; admissions to care; information systems; black and minority ethnic communities; user and carer experiences; people with mental health problems; working relationships; and commissioning and purchasing.