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What's on the agenda, Alan?
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.11.99, 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite new Health Secretary Alan Milburn's statement that mental health was among his top policy priorities, worries persist that pressing issues in the field will remain unaddressed. Reports on how some feel that Milburn's appointment is a harbinger of better times ahead.
Safety catch
- Author:
- RADCLIFFE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.2.99, 1999, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that it is practitioners who are left to put the meaning and humanity into mental health policy.
MIND's policy on black and minority ethnic people and mental health
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Policy designed to guide MIND's practice at local, regional and national levels when working with black and minority ethnic people with mental health problems.
The national service framework for mental health
- Author:
- RICHARDS David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.136-139.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This report gives a summary and assessment of the new National Service Framework for mental health, designed to drive forward and monitor service development and improvement.
Coming in from the cold
- Author:
- DUNN Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 72(12), December 1999, pp.383-384.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
Over 500 witnesses gave evidence to mental health charity Mind's inquiry into social exclusion as experienced by mental health service users. The author of Creating Accepting Communities, a report based on the inquiry's findings, says mental health service users - young and old - remain victims of social exclusion.
Community care for long-stay psychiatric patients: need- or policy-driven
- Authors:
- GARROD Neil, VICK Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(6), December 1999, pp.502-507.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes an economic analysis undertaken as part of an evaluation of mental health services in Clwyd. Cost data were collected in both the hospital setting and subsequent community care settings. Results found little significant difference in care effectiveness, but cost estimates showed that old long-stay patients cost more to care for in the community than the new long-stay patients, whilst in hospital they had cost less. Concludes that the cost of care is substantially affected by non-needs-driven policy decisions as well as by direct patient needs.
Reform of violent incident inquiries sparks debate
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.12.99, 1999, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how mental health groups are divided over proposed reforms of investigations into incidents involving people with mental health illness.
From the supreme court to the British Mental Health Service: new opportunities for social inclusion
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(4), November 1999, pp.5-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
As Britain moves up a gear in its determination to reduce discrimination against disabled people - with the Disability Rights Commission starting work from April 2000, and the Disability Rights Task Force about to launch its final report outlining an agenda for further legislative and policy change - asks 'can mental health service users benefit, and if so, how?'.
Exploring 'person-centredness': user perspectives on a model of social psychiatry
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Brian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(6), November 1999, pp.475-482.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Explores service users' experiences of a 'person-centred' mental health service. The articles describes the development of a model of social psychiatry that places the emphasis on the experiences of the person within social and political contexts which establishes the foundations of a 'person-centred' approach. Presents the results of interviews with 20 people, and explores their experiences. Discusses some of the obstacles to the full realisation of a 'person-centred' approach.
Swallowed up by the system
- Author:
- PRIOR Cliff
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.7.99, 1999, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Proposals in the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill may have a detrimental effect on people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The author outlines the problems.