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National service framework for mental health: modern standards and service models
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. National Health Service
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 149p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental illness and the criminal justice system: a handbook for those working in the criminal justice system, mental health professionals and voluntary organisations
- Author:
- TOOK Mike
- Publisher:
- National Schizophrenia Fellowship
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a handbook for those working in the criminal justice system, mental health professionals and voluntary organisation. It explores issues such as understanding mental illness, contact with the police, diversion from the criminal justice system, contact with the courts and help available for people with mental illness.
Visiting rights
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, July 1999, p.9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Summarises BASW's response to new draft guidance on visiting of parents by children under the Mental Health Act 1983.
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.
The national service framework: a scaffold for mental health
- Author:
- TYRER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 16.10.99, 1999, pp.1017-1018.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The National Service Framework for Mental Health is part of the programme to establish better quality and reduce unacceptable variations in the NHS. The author of this article asserts that implementation is key to determining whether the framework is a support or a gallows.
Compelling case for service users' rights
- Author:
- GREEN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.4.99, 1999, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how a new National Schizophrenia Fellowship survey of mental health service users, carers and professionals reveals a groundswell of support for rights-based legislation.
User friendly
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.4.99, 1999, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how user involvement is changing the face of social care from the outside in.
Mental health care failure in England
- Authors:
- BURNS Tom, RIEBE Stefan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, March 1999, pp.191-192.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The past few years have seen mental health services in England subjected to an unprecedented barrage of criticism. This article responds to this criticism from the point of view of psychiatry.
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.
The management myth
- Author:
- LANGAN Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.99, 1999, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the government's new managerialist agenda in community care will not help service users.