Category Archives: mental health
Biggest mental health trust at mercy of worried doctors
The first major casualty of controversial NHS reforms, which give doctors the power to commission services, looks set to be the end of the West’s biggest mental health organisation, it emerged yesterday
Doctors in both Bristol and in Wiltshire are looking into the possibility of scrapping an agreement with the troubled Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) and ‘re-tendering’ the job of looking after mentally-ill patients in their individual areas.
Hospitals discharging homeless people onto the street
More than 70 per cent of homeless people are being discharged from hospital back onto the streets in England, damaging their health and costing the NHS money, new Homeless Link and St. Mungo’s report indicates.
Improving Hospital Admission and Discharge for People who are Homeless
We call on all the NHS to take a step to end homelessness by ensuring everyone has somewhere suitable to go when they leave hospital.
(PRWEB UK) 28 May 2012
The report has found that NHS staff can improve health outcomes for homeless people and save the NHS money by ensuring all patients have somewhere appropriate to stay when they are discharged from hospital.
Paul Burstow, Care Services Minister, acknowledged these findings during a visit to the Pathway homeless team at University College Hospital (UCH) in London today (28 May). The dedicated homelessness team at UCH were named as an example of best practice in the report, which comes from an in-depth study of 85 homeless people, hospitals, local authorities and homelessness agencies.
20 Commandments for MentalHealth workers
The importance of family support
The 10th Commandment : Thou shalt consider family and good friends of your client as team players (unless it’s impossible) and support them well in the interests of your client
Twelve years ago, after working 11 years at mental hospital wards I started working as a community psychiatric nurse. A month later I had to take my partner to a psychiatrist because he was psychotic. An unexpected experience.
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