The National Care Standards Committee was set up by the Scottish Government to develop national standards in collaboration with a number of working groups including service users and service providers. They are designed to be from the point of view of service users to help them to understand what they can expect from the service provider. They may also be of use to service providers to help them know what is expected of them. The standards in this publication cover care homes for people with mental health problems. These services provide accommodation together with nursing and personal care or support to people with mental health problems. People with mental health problems may choose to stay in a care home permanently, or for regular planned short breaks. Staff should be able to cater for individual’s changing needs so they should not have to move if they become ill. The standards are grouped under 4 headings: before moving in; settling in; day-to-day life; and moving on.
The National Care Standards Committee was set up by the Scottish Government to develop national standards in collaboration with a number of working groups including service users and service providers. They are designed to be from the point of view of service users to help them to understand what they can expect from the service provider. They may also be of use to service providers to help them know what is expected of them. The standards in this publication cover care homes for people with mental health problems. These services provide accommodation together with nursing and personal care or support to people with mental health problems. People with mental health problems may choose to stay in a care home permanently, or for regular planned short breaks. Staff should be able to cater for individual’s changing needs so they should not have to move if they become ill. The standards are grouped under 4 headings: before moving in; settling in; day-to-day life; and moving on.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, quality assurance, residential care, rights, service users, social care provision, care homes;
The main elements of the bill are first: to establish a new, integrated health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, from existing regulators; to define the functions of the new regulator in the areas of safety and quality assurance, information and performance assessment and safeguarding the rights of detained mental health patients; and to update the system of registration that applies to providers of health and adult social care services and extend this to include NHS providers. Further details will be set out in response to the consultation on 'The future regulation of health and adult social care in England.' Second, to introduce legislation to use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof for all healthcare professional regulatory bodies; to create an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies; and to ensure that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' with personal responsibility to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors.
The main elements of the bill are first: to establish a new, integrated health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, from existing regulators; to define the functions of the new regulator in the areas of safety and quality assurance, information and performance assessment and safeguarding the rights of detained mental health patients; and to update the system of registration that applies to providers of health and adult social care services and extend this to include NHS providers. Further details will be set out in response to the consultation on 'The future regulation of health and adult social care in England.' Second, to introduce legislation to use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof for all healthcare professional regulatory bodies; to create an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies; and to ensure that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' with personal responsibility to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors.
Subject terms:
information management, inspection, mental health problems, NHS, patients, professional registration, quality assurance, registration, rights, adult social care, assessment, compulsory detention, health care;
The main elements of the bill are firstly: to establish a new, integrated health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, from existing regulators; to define the functions of the new regulator in the areas of safety and quality assurance, information and performance assessment and safeguarding the rights of detained mental health patients; and to update the system of registration that applies to providers of health and adult social care services and extend this to include NHS providers. Further details will be set out shortly in response to the consultation on 'The future regulation of health and adult social care in England.' Second, to introduce legislation to use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof for all healthcare professional regulatory bodies; to create an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies; and to ensure that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' with personal responsibility to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors.
The main elements of the bill are firstly: to establish a new, integrated health and adult social care regulator Ofcare, from existing regulators; to define the functions of the new regulator in the areas of safety and quality assurance, information and performance assessment and safeguarding the rights of detained mental health patients; and to update the system of registration that applies to providers of health and adult social care services and extend this to include NHS providers. Further details will be set out shortly in response to the consultation on 'The future regulation of health and adult social care in England.' Second, to introduce legislation to use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof for all healthcare professional regulatory bodies; to create an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies; and to ensure that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a 'responsible officer' with personal responsibility to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors.
Subject terms:
information management, inspection, mental health problems, NHS, patients, professional registration, quality assurance, registration, rights, adult social care, assessment, compulsory detention, health care;
Journal of Mental Health, 9(1), February 2000, pp.77-88.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Place of publication:
London
Each year since 1990 trainee approved social workers in Merseyside have spent time observing local psychiatric wards from the viewpoint of patients. The exercise has been characterised by reports of institutional aimlessness, poor staff-patient relations, a narrow approach to mental health problems and a lack of attention to civil and human rights. Questions why so much recent policy change has made so little different to institutional psychiatry and highlights the recent lack of theorising or research about the nature and purpose of hospital-based mental health treatment. With government policy inclined towards an increase in psychiatric beds it is argued that the aims, methods, quality and outcomes of hospital treatment require investigation, with particular attention to the social relations of mental health service delivery and the tendency to prioritise regulation and cover care and choice.
Each year since 1990 trainee approved social workers in Merseyside have spent time observing local psychiatric wards from the viewpoint of patients. The exercise has been characterised by reports of institutional aimlessness, poor staff-patient relations, a narrow approach to mental health problems and a lack of attention to civil and human rights. Questions why so much recent policy change has made so little different to institutional psychiatry and highlights the recent lack of theorising or research about the nature and purpose of hospital-based mental health treatment. With government policy inclined towards an increase in psychiatric beds it is argued that the aims, methods, quality and outcomes of hospital treatment require investigation, with particular attention to the social relations of mental health service delivery and the tendency to prioritise regulation and cover care and choice.
Subject terms:
hospitals, mental health problems, patients, psychiatry, quality assurance, quality of life, rights, severe learning disabilities, standards, user views, ethics;
GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. National Health Service in Scotland. CRAG Working Group on Mental Illness
Publisher:
HMSO
Publication year:
1995
Pagination:
56p.
Place of publication:
Edinburgh
Statement by CRAG Working Group on Mental Illness on proper case record keeping as an essential component on good clinical care. Comments on current issues in record keeping in an increasingly multi-disciplinary mental health care team, including social work, and argues that separate record keeping is inimical to properly integrated patient management.
Statement by CRAG Working Group on Mental Illness on proper case record keeping as an essential component on good clinical care. Comments on current issues in record keeping in an increasingly multi-disciplinary mental health care team, including social work, and argues that separate record keeping is inimical to properly integrated patient management.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, quality assurance, record keeping, rights, access to information, case records, computers, confidentiality, good practice;