scholarly journals An innovative service but will it work in practice? Commentary on … Fair Horizons

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Patrick Tyrer
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
New Development ◽  
Healthcare Coverage ◽  
System Success ◽  
New System

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.

scholarly journals Humanist Chaplains Entering Traditionally Faith-Based NHS Chaplaincy Teams

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 744
Author(s):  
Lindsay Jane van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Patient Demographic ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
New Development ◽  
First Time ◽  
Healthcare Chaplaincy

Healthcare chaplaincy in the National Health Service (NHS) has rapidly changed in the last few years. Research shows a decline of people belonging to traditional faith frameworks, and the non-religious patient demographic in the NHS has increased swiftly. This requires a different approach to healthcare chaplaincy. Where chaplaincy has originally been a Christian profession, this has expanded to a multi-faith context. Over the last five years, humanists with non-religious beliefs have entered the profession for the first time, creating multi-faith and belief teams. As this is a very new development, this article will focus on literature about humanists entering traditionally faith-based NHS chaplaincy teams within the last five years in England. This article addresses the question “what are the developments resulting from the inclusion of humanist chaplains in healthcare chaplaincy?” Topics arising from the literature are an acknowledgement of a changing healthcare chaplaincy field, worries about changing current practices and chaplaincy funding, the use of (Christian) language excluding non-religious people and challenging assumptions about those who identify as non-religious.

scholarly journals Are short term savings worth long term costs? Funding treatment for personality disorders

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 517-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Menzies ◽  
B. M. Dolan ◽  
K. Norton
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
National Health ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Short Term ◽  
New System

The new system of funding introduced by the National Health Service reforms has led to an increased awareness of financial concerns within the NHS. This was indeed one of the main aims of the reforms, with the expectation that a more efficient and better quality service would result. This may be a realistic aim, as long as clinicians' freedom to make appropriate secondary and tertiary referrals do not become totally dependent upon financial considerations. Yet it has become clear from findings within our own unit, Henderson Hospital, that, in at least 42% of cases, requests for ECR funding for treatment were refused on a purely financial basis (Dolan & Norton, 1992).

scholarly journals Secondary mental healthcare in prisons in England and Wales: results of a postal questionnaire

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 445-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Kosky ◽  
Clifford Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Prison Capacity

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.

Impact of the Griffiths Reforms of National Health Service Management: The Views of Psychiatrists

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harrison
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
National Health ◽  
Service Management ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Health Service Management ◽  
New System

The Griffiths Report of 1983 recommended a number of reforms to the management of the National Health Service. These were strongly opposed in principle by the British Medical Association though some physicians saw them as potentially beneficial. This paper reports a survey of Psychiatrists in one English Region, whose responses suggest that although there remains little opposition in principle and respondents do see some beneficial effects, the new system tends to be seen in terms of its pragmatic disadvantages, with special reference to a perceived lack of managers' understanding of patients' needs.

scholarly journals Polyclinics and psychiatry: risks and opportunities

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Linda Gask ◽  
Suresh Joseph ◽  
Michele Hampson
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Specialist Services ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The Way

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.

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