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Mental health and employment in the NHS
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 73p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance is designed to provide advice to NHS employers on the retention and future employment of people who have experienced or are experiencing mental health problems. A key objective of the Government is to enable all disabled people, including those with mental health problems, to make the most of their abilities at work and in the wider society. It aims to do this by: providing active help for people to move into work; by taking the obstacles out of the benefits system; and by promoting equality and opportunity in the workplace. As the largest public sector employer in the country, the NHS should be making a significant contribution to delivering these objectives. This guidance confirms the strength of the Department of Health’s commitment to antidiscrimination principles. Its implementation will make a difference to the lives of healthcare workers who have experienced or are experiencing mental health problems; to their quality of life, their self-confidence and their work prospects.
Services to support carers of people with mental health problems: overview report
- Authors:
- ARSKEY Hilary, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The overall aim of the scoping study was to advise the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Research and Development Programme as to what further research should be commissioned in the area of services to support carers, including young carers, of working-age adults and older people with mental health problems. The five key objectives were: to define what was meant by ‘effectiveness’ and ‘cost-effectiveness’ in relation to services to support the target group, recognising that the major stakeholders will have different perspectives on, and interpretations of, these terms; to examine and summarise the evidence from published and grey literature (both UK and international) about effective and cost effective services to support the target group; to ensure that the views of key stakeholders were central to the scoping study and informed its findings and recommendations ; to draw on the evidence from the literature, and the consultation with relevant stakeholders, to identify the key gaps in existing knowledge and, where possible, to describe how these gaps are affecting development of services; and to advise SDO on which areas should be a priority for further research, taking particular note of the requirements of the two NSFs, and the concerns and issues raised by different groups of carers or their representatives.
Services to support carers of people with mental health problems: literature review report
- Authors:
- ARKSEY Hilary, et al
- Publisher:
- National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 180p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides a scoping review of evaluation studies of interventions and services to support carers of people with mental health problems. It discusses issues relating to the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of interventions and highlights where there are gaps in knowledge. The 204 studies included in the review were diverse and complex. Interventions were classified into 11 different groups: educational interventions of different types (36 per cent); breaks from caring (18 per cent); family interventions (10 per cent); mutual support and social activity groups (9 per cent); telephone and computer-based services (8 per cent); multidimensional approaches to caring interventions (7 per cent); counselling (4 per cent); domiciliary care services (2 per cent); physic al environment (1 per cent); services to support Carers of People with mental health problems; supporting carers through memory clinics (1 per cent); and miscellaneous (4 per cent).
Acute in-patient psychiatric care for young people with severe mental illness: recommendations for commissioners, child and adolescent psychiatrists and general psychiatrists
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is widespread recognition that the care of young people presenting with acute, severe mental illness is often unsatisfactory. This can involve a lack of any suitable bed, undue delay, or an inappropriate admission to an adult or paediatric bed. In fact, in England and Wales, some 600 young people are inappropriately placed each year on adult or paediatric wards. The report notes that the principles of specialist provision for adolescents with serious mental illness should include: prompt admission; a suitably safe and appropriately staffed ward environment (which conforms to the agreed standards); geographical proximity to the family home (enabling frequent visits and appropriate family interventions); and minimisation of health and safety risks from other patients and availability of drugs and alcohol. The key recommendations are that: young people aged under 16 years should not be admitted to adult psychiatric wards; those aged 16 or 17 years can be considered for admission to adult psychiatric wards when no suitable specialist adolescent psychiatric bed is available they have severe mental illness; acceptable standards of care are met; health commissioners need to develop appropriate services inappropriate admissions should be considered as a sign of inadequate resources and treated as an untoward or critical incident. The report concludes that significant investment and development are needed to provide acute in-patient and community services for adolescents with severe mental illness in line with Government priorities.
Supporting the supporters
- Authors:
- HARE Phiippa, NEWBRONNER Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2002, pp.27-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
A recent study commissioned by the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation research and development programme (SDO) aimed to identify gaps in existing knowledge about the need for services to support mental health carers and what was meant by effectiveness and efficiency in these services. Consultation with key stakeholders was a major part of the study. This article focuses on the main findings of the consultation. Flexibility and responsive were identified as key characteristics of the ideal support service.
The role of the Public Guardianship Office in safeguarding vulnerable adults against financial abuse
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, BURNS Sophie, WILSON Barry
- Publisher:
- Public Guardianship Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research project was commissioned by the Public Guardianship Office and took place between 2001 and 2002. Although the research was specifically designed to assist the PGO to better understand and respond to financial abuse in its own context, much of what was revealed has wider implications and applicability.
Mental health policy implementation guide: adult acute inpatient care provision
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Acute inpatient care is a core and integral component of the National Service Framework for Mental Health to which all the NSF standards are relevant. Improving adult acute inpatient care and its connections and integration with the other key elements of the whole system of care in its local context is a priority NSF implementation target. Acute inpatient care should already be a designated high priority by any definition prioritising the needs of people with serious mental illness. It is usually only when people are most seriously ill that they are admitted to an acute care ward. Inpatient provision is still the single element on which we spend the greatest proportion of the adult mental health budget and employ the greatest number of staff.
Lambeth joint mental health strategy: services for adults with mental health problems
- Author:
- LAMBETH. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Lambeth. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This joint strategy for adults with mental health problems was launched in April 02. The strategy sets out a clear direction for the continuing development and improvement of mental health services in Lambeth and was developed in partnership by statutory, voluntary and user organisations. The strategy is set in the context of the National Service Framework for Mental Health, the NHS Plan and the Local Modernisation Review.
How to ensure your service is responsive to the needs of carers: a guide and action planning tool for managers and staff working in the health service in Newcastle
- Author:
- NEWCASTLE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE. Newcastle Carers project
- Publisher:
- Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service. Newcastle Carers Project
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This guide and action planning tool aims to assist staff working in the health service to implement carer related elements in various government guidance. This includes 'Caring for carers', 'National framework for mental health', 'National framework for older people', NHS plan 2001 and 'Valuing people'.
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.