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Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12: presented to Parliament ... pursuant to section 120D(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983: summary
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This is the summary of the third annual report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on its monitoring of the use of the Mental Health Act 1983. Mental health is a major issue for this country. Nearly a quarter (23%) of the total burden of disease in the UK is attributable to mental disorder, compared to 16% for cancer and 16% for heart disease. Mental disorder has a broad range of impacts across health, education, work and criminal justice as well as links with health risk behaviour and associated premature mortality. The Government’s consultation on the NHS Constitution proposes amending the first guiding principle on the purpose of the NHS to explicitly include mental as well as physical health. The mid-term review, published in January 2013, includes improving the treatment and care of people with mental illness in its four key priorities for health and care. Overall, some hospitals and wards are doing a very good job in treating patients with dignity and respect. CQC found some overall improvement but most of the concerns highlighted in previous reports remain. There is a significant gap between the realities CQC is observing in practice and the ambitions of the national mental health policy. CQC is concerned that cultures may persist where control and containment are prioritised over the treatment and support of individuals.
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12: presented to Parliament ... pursuant to section 120D(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 108
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This is the third annual report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on its monitoring of the use of the Mental Health Act 1983. Mental health is a major issue for this country. Nearly a quarter (23%) of the total burden of disease in the UK is attributable to mental disorder, compared to 16% for cancer and 16% for heart disease. Mental disorder has a broad range of impacts across health, education, work and criminal justice as well as links with health risk behaviour and associated premature mortality. The Government’s consultation on the NHS Constitution proposes amending the first guiding principle on the purpose of the NHS to explicitly include mental as well as physical health. The mid-term review, published in January 2013, includes improving the treatment and care of people with mental illness in its four key priorities for health and care. Overall, some hospitals and wards are doing a very good job in treating patients with dignity and respect. CQC found some overall improvement but most of the concerns highlighted in previous reports remain. There is a significant gap between the realities CQC is observing in practice and the ambitions of the national mental health policy. CQC is concerned that cultures may persist where control and containment are prioritised over the treatment and support of individuals.
Review of compliance: Mild Professionals Homes Ltd: Old Leigh House
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Old Leigh House was reviewed as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. Two essential standards of quality were examined: Outcome 4: People should get safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and supports their rights; and Outcome 7: People should be protected from abuse and staff should respect their human rights. The report includes a summary describing why the review was carried out, the main findings and action required. It also provides detailed findings for the two essential standards and outcomes reviewed. The provider was found not to be meeting these essential standards and improvements are required.
Review of compliance: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Vale Assessment and Treatment Unit
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was reviewed as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. The Intensive Support Service provides inpatient assessment and treatment of people with a learning disability who have mental health problems or challenging behaviour. Two essential standards of quality were examined: Outcome 4: People should get safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and supports their rights; and Outcome 7: People should be protected from abuse and staff should respect their human rights. The report includes a summary describing why the review was carried out, the main findings and action required. It also provides detailed findings for the two essential standards and outcomes reviewed. Improvements were found to be needed for essential standard Outcome 4.
Review of compliance: Partnerships in Care Limited: Burston House
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Burston House was reviewed as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. The hospital provides assessment, treatment and continuing care to patient’s with mild to moderate learning disabilities who may also have other complex mental health problems, such as autistic spectrum disorder, aspergers syndrome, personality disorders. Two essential standards of quality were examined: Outcome 4: People should get safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and supports their rights; and Outcome 7: People should be protected from abuse and staff should respect their human rights. The report includes a summary describing why the review was carried out, the main findings and action required. It also provides detailed findings for the two essential standards and outcomes reviewed. The provider was found to be compliant with both standards of quality and safety reviewed.
Review of compliance: Wolverhampton City PCT Penn Hospital
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Penn Hospital is a community mental health inpatient hospital managed by Wolverhampton City PCT providing treatment to voluntary patients and people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. This report outlines it compliance to meet essential standards in the assessment or medical treatment of persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. The findings of the inspection are listed under each essential standard and outcome reviewed. Areas of non compliance were identified in all 10 of the essential standards of safety and quality reviewed. The overall judgment is that there is a major concern with the hospital’s quality and safety of care.
How safe are places of safety?
- Author:
- SYMINGTON Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2008, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the police may take a person believed to be suffering from a mental disorders and to be in immediate need of care or control to a 'place of safety'. New national guidelines state that better standards are needed in Mental Health Act places of safety. This article discusses the Section 136 review - which contained user and carer perspectives - and highlights the key recommendations.
You don't know like I know
- Author:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2008, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author argues for a rewriting of the national occupational standards for mental health workers to recognise the primacy of service user knowledge.
Maintaining the momentum: towards excellent services for children and young people's mental health
- Author:
- NHS CONFEDERATION. Mental Health Network
- Publisher:
- NHS Confederation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report aims to: raise awareness amongst the board members of both commissioning and providing organisations about the challenges facing child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), and to highlight the present window of opportunity for leaders to respond to these challenge; illustrate the long-term benefits of comprehensively meeting the mental health needs of children and young people, both to the individuals and families concerned, and to public services and the economy as a whole over that individual’s lifetime; show both commissioners and providers what they can actively do, under existing governance arrangements, to ensure that the recent momentum of progress in CAMHS is not lost, and that their area builds upon these foundations.
Psychosocial interventions for older people with mental health difficulties
- Author:
- BOYD Ben
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 1(3), April 2007, pp.269-278.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Psychosocial interventions (PSI) for older people with mental health difficulties have not been adequately researched nor have they received emphasis in national policy. This reasons for this are explored and a strategy for local implementation is presented that includes training, PSI in service design and generating local data to facilitate implementation.