 The unfinished revolution in mental health services 1985-2005
Mental health care has been transformed in the last two decades. This book charts that progress and examines the key issues facing mental health services.
09 May 2005
£10.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 628 KB
|
 Insights from three national birth cohort studies
Childhood mental health and life chances in post-war Britain finds that mental health problems in children and teenagers have a significant impact on their chances of success in employment and family life as well as contact with the criminal justice system. The study looks at the long-term effects of conduct and emotional problems in adolescence.
07 May 2009
FREE
Download size: 744 KB
|
 Briefing Paper 31
Choice in Mental Health Care finds that mental health and learning disability service users would like more opportunities to choose between different treatment, care and support options.
07 July 2006
FREE
Download size: 111 KB
|
This paper examines the financial costs of the differences in specialist mental health service use among people from different ethnic groups in London.
16 October 2006
£5.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 156 KB
|
This report assesses the service, workforce and financial implications of achieving the seven standards of the National Service Framework for adult mental health care and of implementing subsequent guidance by 2010/11.
12 January 2007
£10.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 449 KB
|
Mental illness costs us more as a society than crime, and this policy paper calculates what the economic and social costs of mental illness are. It also demonstrates the benefits of reducing the prevalence and severity of mental illness.
04 June 2003
£5.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 96 KB
|
 A Vision for 2015
This policy paper sets out a radical but realistic agenda for mental health over the next 10 years.
03 January 2006
£5.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 116 KB
|
 A new framework for organisational change
This position paper sets out the ten major challenges for mental health services to put recovery at the heart of their everyday practice. Implementing recovery means supporting people to take much greater control over the way that they are treated. And it requires mental health professionals to work in a very different way to support service users' own priorities and their hopes for the future.
09 September 2009
FREE
Download size: 254 KB
|
 A methodology for organisational change
The principles of recovery now underpin developments in mental health services in a number of countries. In England, they figure prominently in New Horizons and have received widespread support from the major professional bodies.
This paper presents a practical methodology to help mental health services and their local partners become more recovery-oriented in their organisation and practices, and thereby to support these processes more effectively.
27 April 2010
FREE
Download size: 426 KB
|
 The next 25 years in mental health
Looking Ahead is a collection looking forward to the challenges of the next quarter of a century in mental health policy and practice in the UK. Contributors include Prof Louis Appleby, Dame Carol Black, Prof Cary Cooper and Anne Beales.
23 March 2010
FREE
Download size: 358 KB
|
This paper says mental health services need to change radically to focus on recovery. They need to demonstrate success in helping service users to get their lives back and giving service users the chance to make their own decisions about how they live their lives.
17 March 2008
£5.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 454 KB
|
 Key opportunities to put policy into practice
This paper aims to make sense of what the new policy set out in New Horizons, Working our way to better mental health, Realising ambitions and Work, Recovery and Inclusion means in practice and pick out the key commitments and opportunities as we see them. It follows on from our summary of the policies and looks at how employment and other services can put these opportunities into practice.
15 April 2010
FREE
Download size: 166 KB
|
 What does it mean for mental health?
Payment by Results is a new system to pay for NHS services using a national tariff for each procedure carried out. This policy paper shows that such system is not yet workable in mental health services.
09 December 2004
£5.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 133 KB
|
 The implications for mental health
This paper looks at the implications of GP practices commissioning mental health services, and the risks and benefits to the patients who use the services.
10 November 2004
FREE
Download size: 65 KB
|
 The economic case for investment in Wales
This report is published by the All Wales Mental Health Promotion Network and calls for greater investment in mental health promotion and argues that this will bring economic advantages. It recommends early interventions such as supporting parents and children in their early years. Support for lifelong learning, improving working lives and investing in positive steps for mental health are also recommended.
17 March 2010
FREE
Download size: 1,447 KB
|
 An update of the calculations featured in 'Delivering the Government's Mental Health Policies'
This paper is an update of the original report showing the most recent figures.
09 December 2008
FREE
Download size: 625 KB
|
 The case for psychological therapy on the NHS
We Need To Talk examines the provision of psychological therapies and calls on the Government to provide them through the NHS in line with NICE guidance.
31 October 2006
FREE
Download size: 1.1 MB
|
Follow us on Twitter
Get our RSS Feed