scholarly journals Commentary

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-237
Author(s):  
Robert Hale ◽  
Sebastian Kraemer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Clinical Governance ◽  
National Service ◽  
Staff Support ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Service Framework

This is a timely and useful start to a major debate that should now be taking place in mental health services. The authors have successfully woven the need for staff support into the themes of clinical governance and the national service framework for mental health and other Government initiatives. While concentrating on the particular stresses of consultants, they recognise that other grades and other disciplines in the field also suffer.

Old age mental health services in England: implementing the National Service Framework for Older People

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Tucker ◽  
Robert Baldwin ◽  
Jane Hughes ◽  
Susan Benbow ◽  
Andrew Barker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
National Service ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Service Framework

scholarly journals Forget Me Not: Mental Health Services for Older People

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 403-404
Author(s):  
Susan M. Benbow ◽  
Sean P. Lennon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
National Service ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Service Framework

The exclusion of services for older people from the Mental Health National Service Framework and the delays in publication of the National Service Framework for the elderly have caused many old age psychiatrists to be concerned that, as in many other areas of health service planning and provision, the needs of older people are not being adequately addressed by Government and health service planners. The recent Audit Commission Report, entitled Forget Me Not: Mental Health Services for Older People†, gives us much encouragement that the needs of older adults have not been forgotten. Its recent publication should provide an authoritative focus, which will help old age psychiatrists, their multi-disciplinary and management colleagues and commissioners of services to push forward improvements in services for older people with mental illnesses.

scholarly journals National Service Framework for Mental Health

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 203-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Thornicroft
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
National Service ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Local Flexibility ◽  
Working Age ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Given ◽  
Clear Statement ◽  
Service Framework

The National Service Framework for Mental Health (NSF–MH) is a strategic blueprint for services for adults of working age for the next 10 years. It is both mandatory, in being a clear statement of what services must seek to achieve in relation to the given standards and performance indicators, and permissive, in that it allows considerable local flexibility to customise the services which need to be provided to fit the framework. This paper summarises the process by which the NSF was created, and its content, which became clear when it was published on 30 September 1999 (Department of Health, 1999).

scholarly journals Creating the infrastructure for mental health research

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 403-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Thornicroft ◽  
Jonathan Bindman ◽  
David Goldberg ◽  
Kevin Gournay ◽  
Peter Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
National Service ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Service Framework

The purpose of this paper is to identify the important gaps in research coverage, particularly in areas key to the National Service Framework for Mental Health (NSF-MH) (Department of Health, 1999) and the NHS Plan (Department of Health, 2000), and to translate these gaps into researchable questions, with a view to developing a potential research agenda for consideration by research funders.

Preliminary Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Inspire Measure of Staff Support for Personal Recovery

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S489-S489
Author(s):  
N. Ratti ◽  
B. Mattioli ◽  
L. Mellini ◽  
I. Negri ◽  
A. Mastrocola
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Staff Support ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

IntroductionSupporting personal recovery has become the main aim for mental health services in many countries nowadays. In particular, the relationship between individual service users and staff members can be the key issue in supporting recovery and this requires specific measures in order to identify and evaluate the orientation of services in this process of change. INSPIRE is a standardized questionnaire developed by King's College, London that represents a service user-rated measure of staff support for personal recovery in the UK.ObjectiveAlthough there is a number of instruments aimed at monitoring recovery in the clinical and functional features, there is still lack of measures for personal recovery and recovery orientation of services in the Italian background.AimsThe aim of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of INSPIRE as it is applied in the Italian mental health services.MethodsTwo rounds of data were collected from a sample of 79 inpatients and outpatients of rehabilitation centers and consultant service of the municipality of Ravenna. Analysis was undertaken using SPSS. The main issues investigated were internal consistency, test-retest reliability and exploratory factor analysis.ResultsThe results in the present studies indicate that the Italian version of the INSPIRE measure had a very good internal consistency and a satisfactory test-retest reliability.ConclusionsWhile further studies testing the instrument in larger and more diverse clinical contexts are needed, INSPIRE can be considered a relevant and feasible instrument to use in supporting the development of a recovery-oriented system in Italy.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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