scholarly journals The Mental Health Task Force Support Group

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-251
Author(s):  
John Wattis ◽  
Chris Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Health Market ◽  
Adequate Provision ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up

The Mental Health Task Force was set up by the Secretary of State for Health under the leadership of David King to assist in the process of the closure of the large mental hospitals and to ensure adequate provision was made to replace their services. Its strategic objectives, to be accomplished by the end of 1994, were to map the replacement of the remaining large institutions by good quality services, ensuring that this happened effectively; to identify what makes a service good and find ways of ensuring that services possessed these qualities; and to develop a vision of the shape of the mental health market in years to come. To assist in this a wide support group of about 20 people was set up. This included representatives of the Department of Health, Research and Development in Psychiatry, carer organisations, users, social services, general practice, nursing and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The authors represented the College.

scholarly journals Aftercare: who attends section 117 meetings?

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Rosemary Lethem
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Hospital Department ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Legal Duty

The purpose of aftercare is to enable patients to return to their home or accommodation other than a hospital or nursing home, and to minimse the need for future in-patient care. Under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983, local health and social services authorities have a legal duty to provide aftercare for certain categories of patients when they leave hospital (Department of Health and Welsh Office, 1993).

scholarly journals Tier 2 CAMHS and its interface with primary care

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Tier 2 ◽  
Care Level ◽  
Primary Care Level ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Audit Commission

During the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the primary care level of service for children and adolescents with mental health problems. In particular, a number of national reports have advised service commissioners and providers to increase the amount of specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) support to primary care colleagues (Department of Health/Department for Education/Social Services Inspectorate, 1995; National Health Service (NHS)/Health Advisory Service (HAS), 1995; Audit Commission, 1999).

scholarly journals Invited commentary on The mental health of prisoners

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Tony Maden
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Government

Psychiatrists have always been concerned about the mental health of prisoners. If they did not devote much energy to their treatment, it was only because they had more-pressing problems, including how to squeeze ten patients into nine beds. In any case, it was someone else's job to look after prisoners. Luke Birmingham's article (Birmingham, 2003, this issue) could not be more timely, as this situation has now changed. With the publication of The Future Organisation of Prison Healthcare (Prison Service & NHS Executive Working Group, 1999), and the creation of a joint Department of Health and Home Office task force, the Government has made it clear that the problem of mentally disordered offenders belongs to the National Health Service (NHS). There is a plan, there is a partnership and there are targets. Can those of us who have been worrying about prisoners with mental illness sit back and relax, as the solution unfolds?

scholarly journals How much English health authorities are allocated for mental health care

1999 ◽  
Vol 175 (5) ◽  
pp. 402-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyles Glover
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
District Health ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Local Government Finance ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Health Authorities

The authors of the King's Fund report on London's mental health services (Johnson et al, 1997) argued that the formula used by the Department of Health to allocate resources to health authorities fails to meet the needs of inner cities. It is difficult to explore this issue because the principal allocation to district health authorities is set out as a single figure, with no subdivisions for separate clinical areas. This differs from local government finance, where annual allocations are itemised in a report detailing both major components (education, social services and road maintenance), and subdivisions of these (House of Commons, 1998). However, in the process used by the Department of Health to calculate health service allocations, several areas of clinical work, including the care of the mentally ill and learning disabled, receive distinct consideration. An annual publication sets out the detail (NHS Executive, 1998). Slight reworking allows the identification of implied allocations for the following clinical areas: general and acute; mental illness and learning disability; and other community care. This paper outlines the methodology and shows the allocations to health authorities in England for 1990–2000.

The Contribution of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialists to Care Planning in Child Care Proceedings

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Claire Sturge
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Department Of Health

In September 1997 the President's Interdisciplinary Committee organised a conference to look at issues around Care Planning. As important as the content of the conference was the aim of fostering mutual understanding and the cross-fertilisation of ideas across disciplines. Papers were given by judges, social services directors, guardians, Department of Health representatives, researchers, and child and adolescent mental health specialists. Interdisciplinary workshop discussions followed each paper generating group views and papers. All the papers have just been published as a book (Clarke, 1998).Dominating themes were the question of what, if any, influence the judge can exert over the Care Plan, the possibility of refusing to make a Care Order because of an unsatisfactory Care Plan, the value of the Care Plan and the accuracy of its details as a way of furthering and protecting a child's needs, the uncertainty about the proportion of cases where the Care Plan is altered or abandoned for good or bad reasons or major drift occurs, and ways of improving the quality of Care Plans through interdisciplinary co-operation. Various ways of dealing with these issues were suggested.

scholarly journals A survey of psychiatrists' views of the use of the Children Act and the Mental Health Act in children and adolescents with mental health problems

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 304-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Mears ◽  
Adrian Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Project Report ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Consent To Treatment

Aims and MethodTo identify psychiatrists' concerns relating to the use of legislation in children and young people with mental health problems. Four hundred and eighty members of the child and adolescent faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists were asked to list their main concerns.ResultsTwo hundred and fifty-eight members responded. The four most reported themes were: choosing between the Mental Health Act and the Children Act; general issues around consent to treatment; issues with social services departments; and the stigma associated with using the Mental Health Act.Clinical ImplicationsThe range of themes identified from this survey have served to focus the evaluation of the use of the Children Act and the Mental Health Act in Children and Adolescents in Psychiatric Settings (CAMHA-CAPS), and informed the design of subsequent data collection tools. The project report has now been submitted to the Department of Health for consideration.

scholarly journals Mental Health Task Force Support Group

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-242
Author(s):  
Chris Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Task Force

scholarly journals ThroughBlue: A support group for women affected by depression

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Trish McBride ◽  
Jane Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Australian Study ◽  
Therapeutic Value ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Health Support ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Way

Recent US research has validated the benefits and therapeutic value of peer support groups as a treatment component for depression, as has a 2008 Australian study of a women’s mental health support group. As facilitators working weekly with ThroughBlue, a support group of women who have experience of depression, we had already discovered the truth of their findings. This paper is a description of the way this Wellington group works, and may be of use to others looking to set up or facilitate similar groups elsewhere.

scholarly journals Psychiatric Nursing — Quo Vadis?

1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 70-72
Author(s):  
Charles Brooker ◽  
Paul Beard
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
District Health ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
To Come ◽  
Regional Health Authorities

In the last year or so the future of mental health services in this country has been intensively discussed. COHSE, MIND, and the Richmond Fellowship have produced their ‘blueprints', outlining details of the way they see services being organized. All variety of professional organizations have been busy presenting evidence to the House of Commons Social Services Committee which is specifically examining community care. The DHSS has committed more joint finance to ‘care in the community’ projects and Regional Health Authorities are examining the strategies to close large psychiatric hospitals. Consequently, District Health Authorities, in many cases, are planning the shape of a new mental health service which places increasingly less reliance on the large institution. The phrase ‘community care’ has now become so hackneyed in planning circles that for many it has lost whatever meaning it may have once had. However, despite all the rhetoric, and indeed all the planning activity, psychiatric nurses themselves have still to voice coherently their thoughts and fears about the shape of things to come.

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