The Bradley Report five years on – finishing the vital job
In the five years since my review of the support offered to people with mental health problems or learning difficulties in the criminal justice system, we have seen significant progress.
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New Mental Health Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Networks
This week Public Health England launched a new Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Network whose website includes new profiling tools for Common Mental Health Disorders, Severe Mental Illness, Community Mental Health Profiles and Neurology.
Five years of solid progress since Bradley Report must be sustained by local and national action, says Independent Commission
Successful implementation of liaison and diversion will depend on local services offering effective and engaging support to people of all ages who are diverted.
Risk, safety and recovery
Risk, Safety and Recovery argues that risk and safety are rightly major concerns in mental health care but that traditional clinical management methods of assessing risk have stood in the way of helping people to recover their lives.
Person centred safety planning can help to manage risk and support recovery, new briefing paper shows
Risk and safety are rightly major concerns in mental health care but traditional methods of assessing risk have stood in the way of helping people to recover.
Outcomes and performance in liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric service models that seek to bring its benefits to the people in our acute care hospitals and medical and surgical care pathways have struggled to defend their value for the want of adequate measures of outcome.
Briefing 48: Employment support & addiction: what works
More people with drug or alcohol addiction can be helped into employment with the right support, according to our research.
Finding the keys to diversion
Centre for Mental Health has been investigating how liaison and diversion services can best identify and support people with multiple needs when they come into contact with the police and courts.
Keys to diversion
Keys to Diversion finds that the most successful liaison and diversion teams offer support for a wide range of a person’s needs, connect with local agencies and stay in touch with people after they have been referred on.
Mental health cost cutting is a false economy
The NHS should be investing in interventions that improve health and wellbeing, not cutting cost effective mental health services, says Sean Duggan.