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Tribune group
- Author:
- SPENCER John
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 23.9.99, 1999, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Explains how the right of psychiatric patients to challenge their detention through a tribunal provides challenges for managers and clinicians.
Patients will pay for government cherry-picking
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.11.99, 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's Green Paper to shake up mental health legislation was supposedly based on the review of the Mental Health Act 1983 by an expert committee, but, asks the author, have ministers ignored its central thrust?
A guiding hand
- Authors:
- CURRAN Christopher, GRIMSHAW Catherine, HEWITT David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.99, 1999, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how a revised code of practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 aims to bring social care practitioners up-to-date on best practice to safeguard patient's rights.
Lullaby of Broadmoor
- Author:
- OLDEN Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.7.99, 1999, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Asks why Victor Nash, Susan Goscombe and Jason short, all patients at Broadmoor Hospital, committed suicide within a two-week period.
Homelessness and the use of acute psychiatric beds: findings from a one-day survey of adult acute and low-level secure psychiatric patients in North and South Thames regions
- Authors:
- KOFFMAN Jonathan, FULOP Naomi
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(2), March 1999, pp.140-147.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes the impact of homelessness on the use of adult acute and low-level secure psychiatric beds in North and South Thames regions. The article specifically focuses on those homeless patients who no longer required the acute psychiatric facilities in order to determine the complement of accommodation and alternative services necessary to enable them to be discharged. Concludes that homeless psychiatric in-patients have contributed to the increasingly precarious state of mental health services provision and represent a failure to provide a sufficient level of community alternatives for those who can no longer access the long-stay hospital services, and for whom the pool of acute psychiatric beds is ever reducing.
A qualitative analysis of the views of in-patient mental health service users
- Authors:
- GOODWIN Isabel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(1), February 1999, pp.43-54.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This study examines the views of patients of adult in-patient psychiatric services in a large, rural county in England. The emergent themes extracted from the comments made by the patients reflect what appear to be most important issues for in-patient service users. The 13 themes identified are presented with illustrative comments, and discussed in relation to the methodology used and the issues of the intransigence and power of psychiatric institutional systems. Finally, the challenge of pursuing more humane and caring practices within psychiatric institutions is considered and means of achieving and monitoring this are discussed.
Limits to the value of mental health review tribunals for offender patients
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Pamela J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, February 1999, pp.164-169.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reform of mental health legislation for England and Wales is due. Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs) offer an important check in the balance between patient and public rights. This article evaluates the quantity and outcome of MHRTs in special (high-security) hospitals. Concludes that special hospital MHRTs result in few changes in patient status. A probable need for improvement in the evidence put before an MHRT was found. Legislation reformers should consider an extension of MHRT powers to order transfer between levels of security.
A room of your own
- Author:
- MUNRO Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 27.1.99, 1999, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Mixed-sex wards are not ideal settings for women with mental health problems. Discusses how one woman-only ward is showing the way forward.
Patient held information record: adult mental health
- Author:
- PICKERSGILL David
- Publisher:
- Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 123p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Wakefield
Report on a pilot project undertaken to develop a patient held record system for people with mental health problems. The project was a partnership between Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health Service, who took the lead, and Wakefield SSD and the Richmond Fellowship for Community Mental Health.
Is managed mental health treatment psychotherapy?
- Author:
- EDWARD Joyce
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 27(1), Spring 1999, pp.87-102.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The corporate takeover of mental health treatment in the USA has dramatically affected mental health treatment. Drawing on several detailed sessions from the 'managed' treatment of a young woman, the author considers whether managed mental health care can be called psychotherapy.