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.
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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.
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An innovative approach to mental health support
A group of GPs in the City of London and Hackney have taken an innovative response to the needs of people whose mental health problems are more complex than their doctor can manage alone yet who don’t qualify for specialist services.
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Managing patients with complex needs
Improving mental health care for people with complex needs can reduce pressures on GPs and hospitals as well as dramatically improving people’s lives.
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Bridging the gap
A rebalancing of health and care resources is needed to ensure no one is denied the mental or physical health care they need.
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Liaison psychiatry in the modern NHS
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.
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Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
Long-term physical illnesses affect 30% of the population of England, or some 15 million people. Mental health conditions affect about 10 million of us.
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Dual diagnosis: a challenge for the reformed NHS and for Public Health England
The 2012 health reforms posed both threats and opportunities for people with dual diagnosis or multiple needs. This discussion paper from that time looks at the likely implications.
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Long term conditions and mental health: the cost of co-morbidities
Patients with a long-term condition and co-existing mental health issue face poorer clinical outcomes and a significantly lower quality of life than people with a physical health problem alone.
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Economic evaluation of a liaison psychiatry service
This report examines the costs and benefits of an award-winning service based at Birmingham City Hospital. The service offers comprehensive, round-the-clock mental health support to all adult patients in the hospital.
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