Best Practice Guidance: Specification for adult medium-secure services

Best Practice Guidance: Specification for adult medium-secure services, July 2007, DoH
This is a best practice document with quality principles, specifications and high-level indicators for all medium-secure services. It also clarifies the performance framework underpinning the quality principles.
This specification relates to medium-secure services as defined in the contract for the
provision of mental health, learning disabilities or [...]

NICE Guideline: Drug Misuse

    NICE (2007) Drug misuse: Opioid detoxification.
NICE (2007) Drug misuse: Psychosocial interventions
NICE has produced two guidelines on drug misuse – ‘Drug misuse: psychosocial interventions’ (NICE clinical guideline 51) and ‘Drug misuse: opioid detoxification’ (NICE clinical guideline 52).
They cover:
• the support and treatment people can expect to be offered if they have a problem with or [...]

Self Harm Guidelines for Forensic Settings

    2005-guidelines-for-the-management-of-self-harm.pdf
Guidelines for the management of self harm in a forensic setting, 2005, British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol 7, Iss. 2

ABSTRACT

Previous research has established that guidelines to facilitate a non-judgemental, consistent approach to self-harm management would be useful to staff working in a forensic psychiatric setting. In the preparation of these guidelines, a literature [...]

Mental Health at Work from Sainsbury

    Mental Health at Work: Developing the business case,  December 2007
Every organisation in Britain is affected by mental distress and ill health in the workforce. At any one time one worker in six will be experiencing depression, anxiety or problems relating to stress. Mental ill health is normal in every workplace in the land.
The total [...]

A Mental Health Care Pathway

   A Mental Health Care Pathway for Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities: A resource pack for service planners and practitioners July 2007
A resource pack for services to help them become more accessible to children with learning disabilities.

The pack is a result of the recognition that current access for children with learning disabilities is inadequate.
Children [...]

Interesting Reading for OT’s

    Engaging People Observation of People with Mental Health Problems a good practice statement 2005
“Engaging People” is a revision of the CRAG document “Nursing Observation of
Acutely Ill Psychiatric Patients in Hospital” (1995) and is relevant to all who provide or
receive acute psychiatric care. The general principles of the document can also be
adapted to support care of other [...]

Violence

Violence : the short-term management of disturbed /violent behaviour in in-patient psychiatric settings and emergency departments  Appendix revised 2006 – review date feb 2009
Author: Royal College of Nursing – RCN
The National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care (NCC-NSC) was commissioned by NICE to develop these guidelines. This document describes the methods for developing the [...]

Dementia Knowledge Week

   Dementia Knowledge Week from the National Library for Health
The Dementia knowledge week brings together evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews, important primary research, service development literature and patient information.

Watch this space

Coming to a Cinema near you!

   Mental Capacity Act Film 
The Mental Capacity Act which came fully into force on 1st October 2007, safeguards the interests of people who may lack mental capacity to make decisions for themselves, now or in the future.
‘Three Stories’ is a powerful documentary depicting the 3 real life stories. It shows how the Mental Capacity Act [...]

Caring its not just for Christmas

  Care in a New Welfare Society: Unpaid care, welfare and employment by Sophie Mullins from the Think Tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) provides a policy framework for unpaid care in welfare and employment policy. It establishes a methodology to understand the value of care, and recognise the costs that caring involves. [...]

Forget ‘Currents’ we are talking ‘BIG Sultanas’

   Click on here -  librarybulletindec-07.pdf   The all new singing and dancing Current Awarenss Bulletin from Lancashire Care Library & Information Service.
Looking for a list of current journal articles on Psychosis, ADHD, look no further… Also includes the latest list of new E-Books available from this blog, click on the Tab at the top.

Make Yourself Comfy

Turning Point and Dr Foster Intelligence have produced ‘A Personal Approach to Public Services’, a new report which states world class public services can be provided without structural reform or significant additional resources or costs, the holy grail of the public sector! Key to achieving this are:

Intelligent customer insight – improving effective and consistent use [...]

Current Bytes

  Current Bytes December 2007
The last Current Bytes of the year from Mersey Care,  produced fortnightly by the Knowledge & Libraries team. It’s main aim is to to keep you up to date on all the latest health news, with a strong emphasis on mental health. 

CBT Expectations

  Cognitive and behavioural therapy (CBT) for people with depression and anxiety: what skills can service users expect their therapists to have?  September 2007,     Department of Health
Leaflet for the public on CBT, which is the therapy that will be used by the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme to make psychological therapies more widely [...]

The competences required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders

  The competences required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders          September 2007, Department of Health
This document identifies the activities associated with the delivery of high-quality cognitive and behavioural therapy and the competences required to achieve these. It describes a model of the relevant competences and discusses [...]

Learning Difficulties

Learning Difficulties  from the Healthcare Commission  169,000 people aged 20 or over are known to use services for people with learning difficulties in England.
People with learning difficulties have a right to have their human rights upheld. They should be supported in ways that promote their independence, increase choice and control and inclusion in their communities.
We [...]

Prisoners on the Move

  Procedure for the transfer of prisoners to and from hospital under sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act (1983) 7th December 2007, Department of Health
The revised and updated ‘Procedure for the Transfer of Prisoners to and from Hospital under Sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983′ aims to help colleagues [...]

Speciality Mix and we are not talking Nuts

  Hospital Organisation, Speciality Mix and MRSA, 18th December 2007, Department of Health
This document presents an analysis of the contribution of organisational factors, such as bed occupancy rates, cleanliness and use of temporary staffing; to understand the variations in MRSA rates between different hospitals. The paper also examines how these relationships may have changed over [...]

Current Awareness Bulletin

  The CEBMH’s e-CAB is a fortnightly bulletin containing selected news items on mental health issues, including clinical news, health and social care guidance, policy and publications.
An easy way to keep up-to-date in Mental Health.

Child suicide bids rise to more than 4,000

Child suicide bids rise to more than 4,000 16th December 2007 Observer newspaper
Children’s Secretary calls for greater vigilance to spot those at risk
More than 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, according to NHS figures that show the scale of distress and mental suffering in the young.
There is a [...]

Self Harm Hits the Headlines

Self-harm: ‘I cut myself to feel better’ Telegraph, 17th December 2007
  Middle-class girls under pressure are increasingly among the one in 15 young people who engage in self-harm. Glenda Cooper reports on what experts fear is the ‘new anorexia’
Tor’s story is told in ‘Born Survivors – Cut Up Kids’ tonight  18th December 2007 on BBC3 at 10.30pm
 

Any Relation to Ben & Jerry!

 Doc brings corpses on tour 
Dr Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds is a travelling showcase of preserved cadavers and body parts that are prepared using plastination – a special technique that reveals the network of muscles, tendons and vessels in the body. 

Therapy vs Therapy

Two-Year Randomized Controlled Trial and Follow-up of Dialectical Behavior Therapy vs Therapy by Experts for Suicidal Behaviors and Borderline Personality Disorder Journal article from the Archives of General Psychiatry 2006
“Ourfindings replicate those of previous studies
of DBT and suggest that the effectiveness of DBT cannot
reasonably be attributed to general factors associated
with expert psychotherapy. Dialectical behavior therapy
appears to [...]

Three Cheers for Nursing Staff

Good Practice in Learning Disability Nursing 5th December 2007
Provides good practice guidance to support learning disability nursing to make a major contribution to the health and wellbeing of people with a learning disability in the future.
“Learning disability nurses are an essential part of making the Valuing People vision
happen. They have two particularly important contributions to make. [...]

Wake up Britain!

Mental Health and Work  December 2007
 Britain’s bosses are unaware of the scale of mental ill health in their workplaces or the enormous financial toll it can take, according to a new Position Statement issued by the Faculty of Public Health (FPH). The Faculty of Public Health recognises that mental health is a major public health [...]

Systematic Review of Bipolar

A systematic review and economic model of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions for preventing relapse in people with
bipolar disorder, 2007 from Health Technology Assessment
Evaluation of bipolar disorder treatments found a number of effective and cost-effective drug therapies, however preferred treatment depends on the specific characteristics of an individual’s disorder; psychosocial interventions may be [...]

Schizophrenia Reference Sheet

Schizophrenia Reference Sheet 2006 from the National Prescribing Centre
This is a great source of information for schizophrenia, it lists for example recommended journal articles, reports etc and remember if you need full text articles please contact susan.jennings@lancashirecare.nhs.uk and I will be able to email you the results.

Schizophrenia Knowledge Week

Schizophrenia Knowledge Week from the NLH (National Library for Health) 2007
The Schizophrenia knowledge week brings together evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews, important primary research, service development literature and patient information.

‘Dickens’ will have to change the title!

Self-harm in England: a tale of three cities May 2007, from the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
If you would like the full-text of this article, please send a request to susan.jennings@lancashirecare.nhs.uk. thankyou
From the leader author on self-harm, Keith Hawton and friends look at a multicentre study of self harm.
Background: Self-harm is a major healthcare problem [...]