This paper makes a first attempt at assessing whether peer support provides value for money, looking specifically at whether peer support workers can reduce psychiatric inpatient bed use.
What leads girls to join gangs? Girls with links to gangs are, on average, three times more vulnerable than most other children in the Youth Justice system, according to this report
The briefing outlines key actions for NHS England and clinical commissioning groups to deliver improvements in the way we treat long-term conditions and tackle health inequalities.
Originally posted in the HSJ blog Leadership in Mental Health, 6 February, 2013 The Francis report today set out some 290 recommendations to protect NHS patients from neglect and poor care. The report’s recommendations reach across the health services, from the accountability of individual professionals for their own conduct to the roles of the national
The MHTR has unfulfilled potential to offer offenders with mental health problems the option of a sentence in the community.
This briefing summarises the ways in which health and probation services can work together to meet the needs of offenders with mental health problems.
The recent Schizophrenia Commission report, The Abandoned Illness, has shone a strong light on the way we as a society respond to people with psychosis.
Liaison Psychiatry in the Modern NHS suggests that liaison psychiatry services can save an average hospital £5 million a year by reducing the number and length of admissions to beds.
This paper outlines how public mental health and the wellbeing movement can contribute to one of the key challenges for recovery: increasing opportunities for building a life beyond illness,.
Parenting interventions can dramatically improve children’s futures but they must be made widely available, delivered well and targeted at the children who need them most, according to a report from Centre for Mental Health.
