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Mental health bulletin: annual report from MHMDS returns England 2011-12: initial national figures
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 48
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The statistics and analysis set out in this annual report from the Mental Health Minimum Dataset relate to data on NHS funded specialist mental health services for adults for the financial year 2011/12. The report presents national analysis (a second publication, due for publication in spring 2013, will include organisation level analysis). It covers people using services (including hospital and community care, age and gender, legal status of people who spent time in hospital, complexity of care, and analysis by ethnic group) and service activity (including contact with health care professionals and day care attendances, and inpatient activity). A special feature in the report uses a linked data set to compare mortality rates of those in contact with mental health services with the general population and provides information about cause of death. The report includes information about the new version of the Mental Health Minimum Dataset and changes to data sources and processing.
Routes out of debt
- Author:
- PITT Vern
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.7.09, 2009, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with mental health problems are often prone to debt and practitioners need to aware of solutions for service users in this position. This article highlights the importance of money advice services.
Digital exclusion profiling of vulnerable groups: adults with mental health problems: a profile
- Authors:
- CITIZENS ONLINE, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This profile considers adults with mental health problems. It aims to understand group members' actual and potential interaction with technology. The starting point of the profile is to understand the life circumstances of group members through desk-based research. Our understanding of group members' (potential) engagement with technology has been developed largely through primary research. In particular, focus groups were set up with group members and professionals working with the group. Detailed findings from the primary research as well as further background to this profile are available from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Claiming disability living allowance: an information pack for adults up to age 65 using mental health services, their carers and advocates
- Authors:
- DAVIS Alex, DAVIS Ann, O'KANE Martin
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health; Suresearch
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This Information Pack addresses, in a practical way, the issue of poverty amongst people who use mental health services. Whilst increasing numbers of people with mental health problems are claiming Disability Living Allowance (DLA) the evidence suggests that many who could benefit from it are still not making claims. In 2005 £200 million of DLA and Attendance Allowance was unclaimed. The authors of this guide have had success in increasing income levels amongst service users by assisting them to claim DLA and would like to share what they have learnt with others.
Benefits and work for people with mental health problems: a briefing for mental health workers
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, SCOTT Judy
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health service users often want to return to work, but after six months of sickness absence, only half ever succeed. Many are unsure or misinformed about how to make the journey into employment without feeling financially or emotionally insecure. It is important for mental health support workers in every field to have some knowledge of the benefits system – this briefing enables them to offer accurate guidance which will help service users make the move into employment with reduced risk to their wellbeing or their income. The briefing identifies seven major disincentives to work which must be tackled by policy makers before returning to employment can become a clear, easy process for service users. Under the present system, people may experience no financial gain, or even a drop in income from working, they may be unable to get financial support for practical needs at work, and they may be forced to undergo an untimely medical review.
Prison link workers
- Author:
- KING'S FUND
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Many people in the criminal justice system have mental health problems, but often do not get the support they need. This summary reports on a project run by London-based charity Revolving Doors, evaluated with a King's Fund grant. The scheme offers practical support to people with mental health and multiple needs who come into contact with the criminal justice system. It helps link individuals to mainstream services and aims to work in the longer term with people with complex needs. This summary provides details of the scheme and offers learning points on issues such as involving service users.
Keep quiet about it
- Author:
- CARTER Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.12.05, 2005, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the personal experience of the stigma of mental health in a sample of people with mental health problems. Seventy-five people took part in the study which was carried out by North West Wales NHS Trust. Results show that stigma and the fear of negative reactions form others because of mental health problems are prevalent. A lower proportion of discrimination was reported compared to the experience of stigma. Future research will need to examine strategies found to be helpful in coping with stigma.
Psychiatric advance directives: qualitative study of informed deliberations by mental health service users
- Authors:
- AMERING Michaela, STASTNY Peter, HOPPER Kim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 186(3), March 2005, pp.247-252.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Established legal mandates and high expectations for psychiatric advance directives are not matched by empirical evidence documenting their actual implementation. This study explored the interests, concerns and planning activities of informed mental health service users contemplating such directives. Standard qualitative research techniques were used: field observations, interviews, focus groups, archival research and key informant interviews; 33 persons participated in the interviews and focus groups. Transcripts were coded and analysed for thematic content, and results were member-checked. Training set in motion labour-intensive projects: conceptualising how a psychiatric advance directive would work in one’s life, mobilising resources, reviewing past experiences and assessing risks. Especially meaningful was the prospect of being treated as a responsible agent in future interactions with the mental health system. Advance directives are best thought of as complex planning tools for future psychiatric crisis management, rather than focal interventions to enhance compliance. Research is needed to explore the institutional response to this prospective decision-sharing initiative.
Waiting for something better: stories of adversity, resilience, mental health and hope
- Authors:
- WEBB Nick, WALDING Ella, HARRINGTON Jean
- Publisher:
- Innovation Unit
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a book of, and about, stories, collected through close observation and ‘being with’ storytellers themselves, capturing the lived experience of ‘mental health’. In an important sense they are not stories of mental health – that is too narrow. They are, more accurately, stories of adversity, and the ways in which it affects life experience and outcomes, including mental health. Through these stories we can start to see how mental health is currently ‘done’ - in other words how it is described, how mental health services and systems are designed, how power and resources are distributed, and the practices that shape how people receive, interpret and experience care and support. These stories alone do not provide answers, instead they are an invitation to engage, to ask questions. They trigger compassionate empathy, an ability to connect with what people are living through and, crucially, to either take, or help them to take action to feel better and live well. Towards the end of this book we offer an analysis of the stories, and identify key insights: people have complex lives, not complex mental health; why people fall through the gaps; moving towards caring, strength based systems; from just coping to growing; remaining hopeful despite everything. (Edited publisher abstract)
Where you stand affects your point of view. Emancipatory approaches to mental health research.
- Editor:
- COCHRANE Susan
- Publisher:
- Social Perspectives Network
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 79
- Place of publication:
- London
Note of a Social Perspectives Network study day which brought together people active in research which in some way is based on the lived experience of service users, or of groups who have been marginalised or oppressed. The day intended to open up discussion about the different social frameworks which exist, including user-led research. It also aimed to highlight collaborative approaches which can help reclaim the idea that our own life experiences are central to how we carry out research and what we do with it. The workshops looked at participants' own experience of, and views on, being involved in research; and were asked to identify some research issues which SPN might want to see prioritised in future. A strong theme during the day was the way in which user/survivors and activists have been developing different approaches to research - approaches which have at their core the lived experience of people going through mental distress, and which are sensitive to those experiences. (Edited publisher abstract)