Patients’/prisoners’ perspectives regarding the National Health Service mental healthcare provided in one Her Majesty’s Prison Service establishment

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 722-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Jordan
2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Patrick Tyrer

SummaryThis commentary discusses the proposed service, Fair Horizons, a new development designed to ensure comprehensive mental healthcare coverage. Although the aims of the new service are laudable and derive from recent seminal papers on changes in the National Health Service, the proposed initiatives are so far untested and there is uncertainty about how far costs will be reduced under this new system. Success is more likely to result if clinicians are committed to the new service and work harder.


2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 445-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Kosky ◽  
Clifford Hoyle

Aims and methodPrison mental health inreach teams (PMHITs) were introduced in response to policy from 2003. This provision comes under the responsibility of the National Health Service. Service development and structure was not defined in policy. A total of 97 prisons of an estimated 100 known to have a PMHIT were targeted by postal questionnaire and responses covered 62 prisons. Team structures were captured in the data with specific regard to the number of available professional sessions.ResultsFindings determine there is generally no correlation between input and prison capacity, although there was some evidence of correlation in the high secure (category A) estate and that the female estate was generally better served.Clinical implicationsIt is evident from this study that PMHITs have evolved piecemeal, with no clear standards or equity across the estate. This is of concern.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Linda Gask ◽  
Suresh Joseph ◽  
Michele Hampson

SummaryThe arrival of the ‘polyclinic’ or ‘GP-led health centre’ has been signalled in the review of the National Health Service. A variety of options have been proposed for the way in which polyclinics will incorporate specialist services to work alongside primary care, and the relevance of these models to mental healthcare is considered. Polyclinics provide new opportunities but with those possibilities come potential threats and risks. Of key importance is the threat that they will re-institutionalise mental healthcare after many years of breaking down such barriers. Buildings provide shared space, but new working practices are more difficult to achieve.


Pflege ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Elke Keinath

Im Artikel werden persönliche Erfahrungen als Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in der Thoraxchirurgie im National Health Service (NHS) in Großbritannien geschildert. Die tägliche Routine wurde von sieben Kompetenzdomänen bestimmt, nämlich: Management des Gesundheits- und Krankheitszustandes des Patienten, Beziehungen zwischen Pflegeperson und Patient, Lehren und Unterrichten, professionelle Rolle, Leitung und Führung innerhalb der Patientenversorgung, Qualitätsmanagement sowie kulturelle und spirituelle Kompetenzen. Diese Elemente wurden durch die Zusatzqualifikation, selbstständig Medikamente verschreiben und verordnen zu dürfen, erweitert, was dazu beitrug, eine nahtlose Erbringung von Pflege- und Serviceleistungen zu gewähren. Die Position wurde zur zentralen Anlaufstelle im multi-professionellen Team und stellte eine kontinuierliche Weiterführung der Pflege von Patienten und ihren Familien sicher – auch über Krankenhausgrenzen hinweg.


Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 76-OR
Author(s):  
ROBERT E.J. RYDER ◽  
MAHENDER YADAGIRI ◽  
SUSAN P. IRWIN ◽  
WYN BURBRIDGE ◽  
MELANIE C. WYRES ◽  
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