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Registering reform in mental health
- Author:
- BARR Wally
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.39-40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that mental health registers were meant to radically improve services but three years on they seem to have made little difference.
Targeting services to meet need: a tired approach to mental health care
- Author:
- MAUNDER Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(11), July 2001, pp.366-369.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Faced with ever-increasing and often conflicting demands Northumberland's health and social services have developed a structured framework to ensure patients with mental health problems receive the level of care appropriate to their needs. The Northumberland tiered approach has meant that primary care practitioners receive training and support to treat patients with more common mental health problems while secondary and specialist services are able to focus their resources on those with more disabling conditions. Describes the evolution and operation of the framework.
Standard two primary care
- Author:
- PROSSER Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(8), April 2001, pp.258-259.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
In the second of a series of articles on the National Service Framework, this article describes how one trust's mental health services have worked with local primary health care services towards achieving standard two.
Accuracy of general practitioner's prognosis of the 1-year course of depression and generalised anxiety
- Authors:
- van den BRINK Rob H.S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, January 2001, pp.18-22.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
A prognosis serves important functions for the management of common mental disorders in primary care. This research aimed to establish the accuracy of the general practitioner's (GP) prognosis. Modest agreement between GP prognosis and course was found, both for depression and generalised anxiety. The researchers conclude that general practitioners do a fair job in predicting the 1-year course of depression and generalised anxiety. Even so, their performance falls significantly short of attainable performance.
Mental healthcare matters in primary care
- Authors:
- CHAMBERS Ruth, BOATH Elizabeth, WAKEY Gill
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The 'National service framework for mental health' aims to provide uniformly good systems so that mental health problems are detected and therefore treated early. This book sets out how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into a personal development plan, or practice learning plan. It shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work, and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Doctors, nurses and practice managers can build up a personal development plan, or a practice professional development plan, through completing the exercises at the end of each chapter, and it demonstrates how to include clinical governance in the mental healthcare services they offer. Includes chapters on: depression; generalised anxiety disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder; stress; schizophrenia; and dementia.
Child mental health in primary care
- Authors:
- SPENDER Quentin, et al
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 383p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Aims to help professionals in primary care assess, manage and refer children and adolescents with mental health problems. Lists problems that can present at any stage of childhood, and those specific to infancy, school age children and adolescents, with definitions, assessment outlines, detailed management options and indications for referral.
Developing a joint mental health strategy for elders
- Author:
- HILL Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(2), June 2001, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Reports on the development of a joint mental health strategy for older people in a central London Borough. The project brought together clinicians and practitioners from a variety of settings, the voluntary sector, and users and carers. The aim of the project was to develop a shared philosophy of care based on promoting independence and from this to identify the components of a spectrum of care that would meet the wide range of needs of elders with mental ill health. The borough had high levels of deprivation, unemployment and poor housing. In addition there was a rich ethnic diversity within the borough.