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The shape of future care for older people with mental health needs
- Author:
- OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY. Institute of Public Care
- Publisher:
- Oxford Brookes University. Institute of Public Care
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
A report from the charity Friends of the Elderly, warns that councils in the South East are unprepared for an increase in demand for mental health services for older people. The charity is saying that areas of serious need will be created which will ‘stretch current service provision to the limit and probably beyond’. The report recommends that statutory authorities work in a more integrated way with voluntary and independent providers.
Service integration requires planning from the top
- Author:
- GREEN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.3.99, 1999, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how while important steps have been made to improve care for mental health service users, the Social Services Inspectorate still believes that more ground can be made in integrating services.
Getting the right start: the national service framework for children, young people and maternity services; emerging findings
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This NSF includes standards covering both health and social care services, and a key theme of this Emerging Findings document is the importance of integrated working between health and social care to support children who are disabled, who have mental health problems, or who are otherwise in special circumstances. For many children this joined-up working is essential to improving the quality of their lives and future life chances. The objective of this NSF is to improve the standard of services and reduce inequalities in care and support services. It provides a landmark in the development of services for children and young people and a real opportunity to give them, and pregnant women, the best start in life to prepare them for getting the most out of going to school, to deal with the problems which all children face during their childhood and, later, to take their place as active citizens in society.
Mental health national service framework (and the NHS plan), workforce planning, education and training, underpinning programme: adult mental health services: final report by the Workforce Action Team; main report; August 2001
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 175p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is in three parts. Part one is an executive summary, setting out the key issues and messages. Part two is the main report and sets out the issues around the workforce, education and training agenda. Part three contains the full report from the Primary Care Key Area Group.
Time to design upwards in mental health services for older people
- Author:
- GOSS Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 7(3), March 2001, pp.18-22.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Four main areas of working need improvement if services for older people with mental health needs are to match the aspirations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the NHS plan. Describes what needs to be done and says that in the future we should be designing services from the recipient upwards.
Working for excellence in mental health services: a complete set of all the current executive briefings
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- London
Eleven briefing papers: keys to engagement, review of services; open all hours, twenty four hour response for emergencies; implications of the consultation paper 'partnership in action'; acute problems; briefing on the new mental health strategy; a first class mental health service; conclusions of the first annual mental health forum; national service framework for mental health; taking your partners, using interagency cooperation; finding and keeping, review of recruitment and retention; implications of the NHS plan.
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.
A national service framework for mental health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 149p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Service Framework (NSF) for mental health is intended to drive up quality and remove the wide and unacceptable variations in provisions. This NSF sets national standards and defines service models for promoting mental health and treating mental illness. It also puts in place underpinning programmes to support local delivery and establishes milestones and a specific group of high-level performance indicators against which progress within agreed time-scales will be measured. The NSF for mental health concentrates on the mental health needs of working age adults up to 65, and covers health promotion, assessment and diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and care, and encompasses primary and specialist care and the roles of the partner agencies. The NSF also touches on the need of children and young people, highlighting areas where services for children and adults interact, for example the interface between services for 16 – 18 year olds, and the needs of children with a mentally ill parent.
Modern standards and service models: mental health; national service frameworks; executive summary
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. National Health Service
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of national service framework setting out standards for mental health service provision. Aimed at both health and social services, and includes health promotion, assessment and diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and care, including support to carers, and encompasses primary and specialist care and the roles of partner agencies.