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Health provision
- Author:
- CRAIG Tom
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Factfile setting out basic information about what services the NHS provides for people with mental health problems.
Crisis in admission beds
- Authors:
- POWELL Robin B., HOLLANDER Doris, TOBIANSKY Robert I.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 167, December 1995, pp.765-769.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports on a study carried out to measure bed occupancy in Greater London's psychiatric units, in response to the apparent shortage of admission beds. The bed occupancy of London's 54 National Health Service (NHS) acute psychiatric units within 29 districts was ascertained by telephone on 16 bank holidays covering the period 1990-93. The mean occupancy level for all London over the 4 years was 97.54%. Bed a steady decline in the number of beds over the four-year period. Occupancy rates have become unacceptably high and require careful monitoring. Corrective action may be required in order to prevent a breakdown in services.
Time to get tougher
- Author:
- WHELAN Norman
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.8.95, 1995, p.52.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Draws on the author's experience of moving clients with mental health problems into the community to argue that nurses have to become more political.
Lincolnshire Health and Lincolnshire GP fundholders: NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing healthcare needs: draft for consultation
- Author:
- LINCOLNSHIRE HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Lincolnshire Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Lincoln
Consultative document putting forward Lincolnshire Health purchasers' first proposals for meeting continuing healthcare needs.
Mental health informatics and the rhythms of community care
- Author:
- GLOVER Gyles
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 21.10.95, 1995, pp.1038-1039.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Although clinical care in British psychiatry has changed radically over the past two decades the information systems that record patients, staff and services are still rooted in the asylum, and lack of appropriate data is impeding clinical work and the development of services. The Department of Health is reviewing the mental health minimum dataset (the information that NHS provider units must pass to purchasers and the department). Argues that this offers an important chance to ensure that the right data are collected in the right way.
A promise of better things to come
- Authors:
- HEGINBOTHAM Chris, BOSANQUET Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 27.8.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Inner city chief executives are calling for better mental health services and have costed what they want to see.
The Belmarsh Scheme: a prospective study of the transfer of mentally disordered remand prisoners from prison to psychiatric units
- Authors:
- BANERJEE Sube, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, June 1995, pp.802-805.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Contracting in psychiatric services from the NHS into prisons has been advocated to improve the care of the mentally disordered in custody. Describes one such service: the Belmarsh scheme.
The prevalence and costs of psychiatric disorders and learning disabilities
- Authors:
- SMITH Kirsteen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, January 1995, pp.9-18.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Assesses the economic burden of psychiatric disorders and learning disability in order to aid decisions on priorities for research. A wide variety of data sources both on prevalence and on the usage and costs of relevant services were used to measure the economic burden of each condition.
Long-term care: minutes of evidence; Thursday 11 May 1995
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a Committee looking at the long term care needs of older people.
Long-term care: minutes of evidence; Thursday 25 May 1995
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a Committee looking at the long term care needs of older people.