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A Missed Opportunity? Community Sentences and the Mental Health Treatment Requirement The Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) is rarely used, even though more than two-fifths of people on community sentences have mental health problems. A Missed Opportunity? looks at why the courts, probation and health services rarely use the MHTR. It calls on the Government to issue clear guidance on the use of the MHTR. 26 March 2009 £8.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download Download size: 651 KB
Dismantling the Berlin Wall The impact of a primary care trust’s integrated health and social care services This study examines the impact of the new commissioning and provider arrangements on primary care health services, mental health services, other agencies, service users and carers in Plymouth. 28 February 2004 FREE Download size: 147 KB
Diversion Dividend Rethink and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health have called on political parties to recognise that imprisoning offenders with mental health problems on short sentences is a poor use of taxpayers' money. Diversion Dividend finds that diverting offenders to community support rather than prisons would save money in the justice system and reduce reoffending rates. 02 April 2010 FREE Download size: 316 KB
Diversion: the business case for action Many people in the criminal justice system have complex mental health needs which are poorly recognised and inadequately managed. Large numbers end up in prison: a high-cost intervention which is inappropriate as a setting for mental health care and ineffective in reducing subsequent offending. Diversion: the Business Case for Action, written with Rethink and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, shows that even with intensive community supervision for up to two years, diversion from custody is still much cheaper than just a few weeks in prison. 15 February 2011 FREE Download size: 294 KB
The Community Order and the Mental Health Treatment Requirement It is estimated that half of people on community orders have at least one mental health problem, yet fewer than one per cent of community orders contain a requirement for mental health treatment. The report looks at the requirement and examines barriers to its use. 09 January 2008 FREE Download size: 1.05 MB
The Police and Mental Health (Briefing 36) This briefing looks at the role of the police in relation to mental health and makes recommendations for development. It calls on the NHS to manage health care in police custody and to take a more active role in diverting people with mental health problems to the services they need. 02 September 2008 FREE Download size: 2,391 KB

A Missed Opportunity?

Community Sentences and the Mental Health Treatment Requirement

The Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) is rarely used, even though more than two-fifths of people on community sentences have mental health problems.

A Missed Opportunity? looks at why the courts, probation and health services rarely use the MHTR. It calls on the Government to issue clear guidance on the use of the MHTR.

26 March 2009
£8.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
Download size: 651 KB

Dismantling the Berlin Wall

The impact of a primary care trust’s integrated health and social care services

This study examines the impact of the new commissioning and provider arrangements on primary care health services, mental health services, other agencies, service users and carers in Plymouth.

28 February 2004
FREE
Download size: 147 KB

Rethink and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health have called on political parties to recognise that imprisoning offenders with mental health problems on short sentences is a poor use of taxpayers' money.

Diversion Dividend finds that diverting offenders to community support rather than prisons would save money in the justice system and reduce reoffending rates.

02 April 2010
FREE
Download size: 316 KB

Diversion: the business case for action

Many people in the criminal justice system have complex mental health needs which are poorly recognised and inadequately managed. Large numbers end up in prison: a high-cost intervention which is inappropriate as a setting for mental health care and ineffective in reducing subsequent offending.

Diversion: the Business Case for Action, written with Rethink and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, shows that even with intensive community supervision for up to two years, diversion from custody is still much cheaper than just a few weeks in prison.

15 February 2011
FREE
Download size: 294 KB

The Community Order and the Mental Health Treatment Requirement

It is estimated that half of people on community orders have at least one mental health problem, yet fewer than one per cent of community orders contain a requirement for mental health treatment. The report looks at the requirement and examines barriers to its use.

09 January 2008
FREE
Download size: 1.05 MB

The Police and Mental Health (Briefing 36)

This briefing looks at the role of the police in relation to mental health and makes recommendations for development.

It calls on the NHS to manage health care in police custody and to take a more active role in diverting people with mental health problems to the services they need.

02 September 2008
FREE
Download size: 2,391 KB

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