Chief Medical Officer’s report sets clear agenda for reinvestment in better mental health
Better, faster and earlier help for mental health is vital to improve people’s lives and represents excellent value for money.
Type: News
Mental health care for all stages of life must be improved for all to thrive
This week, a new book by Lord Layard and Professor David Clark sets out a call for a transformation in the way we think about mental health and the priority mental health care is given.
Type: Blog
Liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric liaison services provide mental health care to people being treated for physical health conditions in general hospitals.
Type: Page
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.
Type: Publication
Lack of places of safety for children is a major cause for concern
A Care Quality Commission survey showing that a third of hospital ‘places of safety’ do not accept children and young people is a major cause for concern and requires concerted action.
Type: News
Supporting recovery in mental health services: quality and outcomes
In order for services to support recovery, we need clear, empirically informed statements of what constitutes high-quality services and how these will lead to key recovery outcomes.
Type: Publication
The false economy of cuts to crisis care
Just weeks after exposing pressures on acute beds in mental health services, today there are further warnings about spending cuts in community teams across England.
Type: Blog
Secure care: a briefing note
Secure mental health services provide accommodation, treatment and support for people with severe mental health problems who pose a risk to the public.
Type: Publication
Welfare advice for people who use mental health services
The report calls for every mental health service to secure specialist welfare advice to help to support recovery and to intervene early when difficulties emerge.
Type: Publication
The fight for real choice in treatment
Mental health issues come up frequently in my work as a local MP. Of the hundreds of people who come to see me at my regular surgeries many are suffering from a mental health issue of some kind or are making representations to me about someone who is.
Type: Blog