 Promoting and protecting offenders' mental health and wellbeing
The offending population experiences poor mental health on many counts, often associated with a lifetime of social exclusion and its consequences. This policy paper looks at a range of innovative programmes and interventions that target people and communities at high risk of social exclusion, poor mental health and offending.
21 July 2010
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 What we know about successful interventions. A progress review.
Common Mental Health Problems at Work examines recent international research evidence on how to help people with depression and anxiety to stay in work or to return after a period of ill health. It confirms that people with common mental health problems do not have to be completely well to return to work. For many, going back to work actually helps their recovery.
07 June 2010
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 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
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 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
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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
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 Tackling mental health and learning disabilities in the justice system
This paper examines what justice workers need to help them to help to implement the 82 recommendations of Lord Bradley's review of how the justice system supports people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
30 March 2010
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 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
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 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
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 The convergence of mental health and criminal justice policy, legislation, systems and practice
This report shows that a convergence is taking place between mental health and criminal justice. It summarises the benefits and the risks of convergence and is intended to inform policy-makers and practitioners about where convergence can be useful and where caution is required. Foreword by Rt Hon Lord Bradley.
16 March 2010
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 Measuring what counts
This paper is based on a seminar organised jointly by Sainsbury Centre and the Department of Health in 2009. It argues that public services do not routinely collect data on mental health inequalities and that the information they do collect is not used to its full potential. It calls for better information to be collected and used.
11 February 2010
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This is our evaluation of a process in England of involving service users in the re-commissioning process. This report provides insight into what worked during re-commissioning day and vocational services. Full of quotes from the people involved, it should help anyone wishing to embark on the re-commissioning of day and vocational services in their own area.
11 February 2010
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 in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services for people with mental health problems
This is a concise guide for health and social care commissioners on how to involve people with direct experience of using mental health services in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services. It is based on the experiences of commissioners and service users who collaborated on re-designing and modernising local services.
01 December 2009
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 Preventing early conduct problems and reducing crime
A very high proportion of those who have the most serious conduct problems during childhood will go on to become involved in criminal activity. This paper examines the links between early conduct problems and subsequent offending. It makes the case for greatly increased investment in evidence-based programmes to reduce the prevalence and severity of conduct problems in childhood.
23 November 2009
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 The economic and financial case for supported employment
Studies have shown that IPS is by far the most effective way of helping people who use mental health services to get jobs. And those who work regularly make less use of mental health services, needing fewer hospital admissions, as well as having a better quality of life and a higher income. This paper provides an overview of the cost and effectiveness of IPS for commissioners.
22 September 2009
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 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
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 Towards a Better Way
Enabling a person with a history of offending to get and keep a job is probably the most effective intervention anyone can make to prevent reoffending and improve their chances of leading a better life. This policy paper examines how to improve the employment prospects of offenders with mental health problems.
02 September 2009
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 Briefing Paper 39
The quality of mental health care available in our prisons is frequently poor. This briefing paper provides an overview of the mental health care available in prisons. It covers prison inreach teams work, alternatives to prison and care after release. It also makes recommendations for improvements.
22 July 2009
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 Briefing Paper 40
Many people with mental health problems find it difficult to remain in employment and face isolation and discrimination in their workplaces. This briefing paper looks at the barriers to employment and at positive initiatives that are being undertaken.
22 July 2009
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 The implications for mental health services for offenders
The Bradley Report made 82 recommendations to improve the treatment of people with mental health problems and people with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system. The Government's response accepted almost all of the recommendations in full or in principle. This briefing paper examines these reports in terms of the mental health of offenders. It is our assessment of and response to their recommendations.
21 July 2009
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 A knowledge and skills set for employment advisory services located in primary care settings
Much long-term unemployment can be averted if the right steps are taken when employees' health conditions are first identified. Responding to this need will require services and staff with the appropriate knowledge and skills. This paper looks at the skills and knowledge that such front line staff would need.
23 June 2009
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 Key indicators for the development of evidence-based employment services
Mental health and employment services should report regularly how well they help people to get and keep paid work. Measuring What Matters presents a set of key indicators that can be used routinely so that service users and their families can see how well services are performing.
09 June 2009
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Every year, primary care trusts in England commission health care for an average of 500 prisoners, 1,000 community sentenced offenders and some 10,000 people who are arrested by the police. The Bradley Report laid down a challenge to the NHS to improve the quality of mental health care it offers to prisoners and offenders. This brief guide sets out 10 questions PCT board members can ask to find out how well their PCT is serving prisoners and offenders in their area.
03 June 2009
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 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
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 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
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 A better way for criminal justice and mental health
Diversion finds that many opportunities for diversion are being missed and too little is being done to ensure that offenders with mental health problems make continuing use of community mental health services. The report looks at the evidence on outcomes and the effectiveness of diversion, it includes information from site visits and looks at whether diversion is good value for money.
23 February 2009
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 Individual Placement and Support into Employment
Doing What Works shows that Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is by far the most effective way of helping people with severe and enduring mental health problems to gain and retain the jobs they want. But it is only effective if all seven of its key principles are in place.
18 February 2009
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 A briefing for people working in the criminal justice system
Personality disorder is a difficult topic which is surrounded by myth. This briefing is designed to raise awareness about personality disorder, to dispel some of the myths, and to give some interesting facts about this important and hotly disputed area, as an introduction for people working in the criminal justice system.
08 January 2009
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Service user involvement in health care research is now firmly established in the NHS but few attempts have been made to find out about prisoners' experiences of mental health care in prison or to encourage their involvement in this research. This review looks at how models of service user involvement in health research could be applied in prisons.
16 December 2008
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 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
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 What is it, who can deliver it and who pays?
The Government wants to help millions of people with mental health problems to work. Vocational rehabilitation is whatever helps someone with a health problem to stay at, return to and remain in work. This paper argues that both taxpayers and employers gain from vocational rehabilitation and that both should pay for it. It looks at the other thorny, practical issues about vocational rehabilitation - what is it, who can deliver it, who pays?
08 December 2008
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 Continuity of care for people leaving prison
Continuity of care is vital in all areas of health care. For released prisoners with mental health problems it is especially important to help them get their lives back on track on the outside.
On the Outside finds that many released prisoners quickly lose touch with the services that are supposed to support them. Many prisoners do not know where they will be living on release. Some end up on relatives' sofas. Others go to hostels where they fear getting back into drug habits, or they end up on the streets.
02 December 2008
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Offending behaviour programmes (OBPs) aim to change the way offenders think in order to change their offending behaviour.
This review finds that many programmes are poorly adapted to the needs of people with mental health problems and that they fail to address the most common causes of offending, such as lack of a home and lack of a job. The review calls for programmes to be made more accessible to prisoners with mental health problems and relevant to people's lives.
12 November 2008
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 The mental health implications of Imprisonment for Public Protection
This report finds that prisoners serving IPP sentences are much more likely than other prisoners to have mental health problems. It looks at the sentencing process, what information is given to prisoners and the courses they can do as well as the prisoners' mental health needs and the impact of mental ill health on the IPP process. It makes recommendations for health and criminal justice services.
18 September 2008
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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
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 Employment support, mental health and Black and minority ethnic communities
People from Black and minority ethnic communities are less likely to use employment support services and less likely to succeed in gaining employment than their white British peers. This briefing suggests some targeted actions that might help to make change happen.
17 July 2008
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 Experiences of prison mental health care
From the Inside is based on interviews with 98 prisoners in five West Midlands prisons. It finds that mental ill health is not the exception but the rule. It sets out what prisoners themselves say they need to improve their mental health.
25 June 2008
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 Commissioning to transform day and vocational services
About Time is the first step-by-step guide that shows how commissioners can turn their services around to offer people the support they need to live the lives they want. It shows that involving service users from the start of a process of radical change is crucial to its success.
12 June 2008
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 Spending on Prison Mental Health Care
Short-changed, produced together with Lincoln University, shows that prison inreach teams get £300 in funding for every prisoner in England. This is only about one-third of what they need to offer the same level of service as community mental health services.
27 May 2008
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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
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 A perspective from primary care
This paper gives an overview of the health and social care and the physical and mental health needs of offenders upon release from prison. It looks at what development work is being undertaken or planned in this area, the national policy drivers in wider health care which may significantly relate to and affect prisoners, how prisoners are enabled to access primary care services and what organisational issues affect this access.
18 January 2008
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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
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 Developing the Business Case
Mental ill health costs employers nearly £26 billion each year. This paper details the costs of ignoring mental distress at work.
13 December 2007
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 Developing a primary care mental health service in prisons
Prisoners with common mental health conditions frequently go untreated in prisons. Government policy is that prisoners should receive health care that is ‘equivalent’ to that which they would get outside. This paper looks at ways in which this could be achieved and makes policy recommendations.
22 November 2007
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 A report by Employers’ Forum on Disability and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Three in ten employees will experience mental health problems during a year. The majority of people with mental health problems are willing and able to work. This report describes what employers and government could do differently that would make it easier to recruit people with mental health problems.
10 October 2007
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 Does one size fit all?
This report is based on a survey of participants, providers and commissioners of training. It finds that only one quarter of participants had received any training from a service user. The report calls for fundamental changes in the delivery of race equality training.
08 October 2007
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 Briefing Paper 34
The journey towards long-term unemployment and disability often begins in the GP's surgery with the signing of a sickness certificate. This briefing paper looks at why this issue has become so important and at positive ways to address it.
20 September 2007
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 Facts and figures on current provision
Forensic mental health services provide care for people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and have been transferred to secure NHS services. This factfile brings together figures from many sources about forensic mental health services.
10 September 2007
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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
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 Setting up and running a project
This publication provides a step-by-step guide to setting up and running a user-focused monitoring project. It covers all stages of the project from recruiting the co-ordinator and interviewers, to the final report.
03 January 2007
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 The Social and Economic Costs of Mental Health Problems in Scotland
The study examined not only the costs of providing health and social care services and losses to the economy in Scotland.
22 November 2006
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 A Practical Guide
Our new guide looks at the core characteristics of effective teams and how they can manage risk and facilitate early discharge from hospital.
07 November 2006
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 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
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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
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 The finances of mental health trusts - July 2006
This is the result of our survey of finance directors in England’s 76 NHS mental health trusts. It finds that more than half of England’s mental health trusts have seen money diverted away from them to pay for deficits in other local health services.
20 July 2006
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The Agenda is our quarterly magazine about African and Caribbean mental health issues.
14 July 2006
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 Making the NHS an exemplar employer of people with mental health problems
A practical guide showing how NHS managers and others can lead by example in employing mental health service users in the NHS workforce while improving the working lives and job retention for all staff.
13 July 2006
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 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
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Mental health workers often state that they spend too long doing paperwork. This report is the result of research undertaken to provide a better understanding of the administrative workload for mental health care staff.
03 July 2006
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 A Review
This policy paper examines London’s prisons and makes recommendations for improvement and ways that the primary care trusts and the prisons can work together to make more progress.
29 March 2006
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 Improving the quality of care in acute psychiatric wards
This report charts the progress of our three-year project working with four acute inpatient units around the country, to explore ways of improving the quality of care they offer.
23 February 2006
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 Briefing Paper 30
This briefing paper shows that patients at the special hospital gained in skills and confidence after participating in a business run for and by patients.
11 January 2006
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 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
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 Developing intermediate mental health care in primary care
This publication provides a step-by-step guide to setting up an Intermediate Care Team in primary care to promote recovery by supporting service users in all aspects on their lives.
24 November 2005
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 Community development, mental health and diversity
This publication profiles an example of good practice in community development and draws out lessons of wider relevance.
17 November 2005
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This tool provides information on mental health and its promotion and protection within congregations and the wider community. It focuses on how faith communities can be welcoming to people with mental or emotional distress, as well as learning from their experiences and benefiting from their contributions.
07 November 2005
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This report is the analysis of a survey carried out in 2004 of psychiatrist posts in England.
12 October 2005
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These activity sheets provide parents and their children aged 4 to 7 with a unique resource to help them talk about how they feel and what makes them happy or sad, stressed or secure.
10 October 2005
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 An independent service user evaluation of a model of assertive outreach practice
This report examines the role of an assertive outreach team in Norwich, from the perspective of its users.
26 August 2005
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 CPA care planning for service users who are repeatedly detained under the Mental Health Act
This report examines the effectiveness of Care Programme Approach care planning for people who are repeatedly detained under the Mental Health Act.
12 July 2005
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A summary of Back on Track? about CPA care planning for service users who are repeatedly detained under the Mental Health Act.
12 July 2005
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 A National Survey of Adult Psychiatric Wards
This report looks at the state of inpatient services in England from the standpoint of ward managers.
25 May 2005
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 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
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 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
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14 November 2004
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 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
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This report examines how first wave applicants for foundation status are involving their local community.
05 November 2004
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03 November 2004
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 Briefing Paper 27
The briefing identifies seven major disincentives to work which must be tackled by policy makers before returning to employment can become a clear, easy process for service users. This information will be superseded by the Welfare Reform Act from April 2008.
12 October 2004
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 A framework for the whole of the mental health workforce
This publication sets out the ten essential capabilities that all mental health staff should acquire as part of their core training.
17 August 2004
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 A Workbook for Values-Based Practice
People's values differ enormously - what may be important to one individual may be of little significance to another. This new workbook provides a series of exercises that enable practitioners to reflect on the way that they work and recognise the influence that different values have on their practice.
13 July 2004
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 The Economic and Social Costs of Mental Illness in Northern Ireland
The economic and social costs of mental illness in Northern Ireland amounted to nearly £3 billion in 2002/3 - more than the total spend on health and social care for all health conditions.
09 June 2004
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 Education, Training and Continuing Professional Development for All
Education and training guidelines published with the Department of Health.
03 June 2004
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 Assertive outreach and crisis resolution in practice
This report focuses on the implementation of assertive outreach and crisis resolution services, comparing sites across the country, and providing practical advice on both the benefits and difficulties of these ways of working.
01 April 2004
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 Mental health promotion and Black and minority ethnic groups
This publication shows how mental health promotion can help to improve the mental health of Black and minority ethnic communities.
01 March 2004
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 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
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This report follows up on Mind's 'Real lives, Real people' programme, which gave training awards to people with mental health problems to enable them to achieve a personal goal that also benefited other people.
17 February 2004
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 Briefing Paper 24
This paper includes guidance and examples on how to implement Standard One of the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
28 January 2004
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This guide offers information and advice on the role of the primary care staff within mental health care, focusing on the implementation of the GP contract.
20 January 2004
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 A practical guide for developing early intervention in psychosis services
This guide sets out the core features of a good service and guides practitioners, managers and all those involved through the process of setting it up and making it work for its users.
03 December 2003
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 A review of public spending on mental health care
This major publication looks at trends in public spending and shows that financial pressures are jeopardising the Government's plans for better services.
10 November 2003
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07 October 2003
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09 September 2003
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 The Physical Health of Mental Health Service Users
The report makes a series of recommendations for improving physical health care for people with mental health problems.
01 September 2003
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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
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 Users and survivors of mental health services working together for support and change
This report details a survey carried out in 2001-2002 of the mental health service user movement in England.
02 June 2003
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 A guide to setting up and undertaking a User-Focused Monitoring (UFM) project
UFM is a dynamic approach for evaluating mental health services that places the experience of the service user at the heart of the process.
01 June 2003
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This publication examines the shape of the user movement today and looks to the challenges and opportunities ahead.
28 May 2003
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 Experiences from the USA
This policy paper argues that English primary care trusts (PCTs) can benefit from understanding the different ways American health maintenance organisations (HMOs) commission mental health services.
08 May 2003
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 A planners' guide
This guide sets out a workforce planning model for the future that can be used by all mental health organisations.
15 April 2003
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 A guide to evidence-based mental health promotion
This briefing is a guide to the evidence base for mental health promotion. It includes interventions to promote mental health and well being, to prevent or reduce the risk of mental health problems and to improve quality of life for people with mental health problems.
01 March 2003
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 An independent policy review on the development of primary care mental health services
This publication reviews the development of mental health services in primary care and the different structures for how primary and secondary care work together.
12 January 2003
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 Reaching and supporting Londoners with severe mental health problems
This report examines the work of three assertive outreach teams, drawing out the key lessons and offering guidance on how to put assertive outreach into practice.
14 November 2002
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 Evaluation of Working Together in London: An integrated mental health initiative
This project examined the work of three assertive outreach teams in the capital.
14 November 2002
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This toolkit has been developed to help organisations address some of the issues around mental health at work and provide a framework for action, including developing a mental health promotion policy for your workplace.
05 September 2002
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 A review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities
This major review documents the 'circles of fear' and the impediments to change which lead to poorer treatment and care of African and African Caribbean adults.
15 July 2002
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15 July 2002
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 A report of the learning from eight mental health crisis services
This report explores the experience of eight innovative, community-based crisis projects in England, which were set up to provide support to people experiencing a mental health crisis as an alternative and complement to inpatient hospital care.
28 February 2002
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 Making social inclusion a reality for people with severe mental health problems
This publication provides in-depth analysis and examples of how mental health and other agencies can support people with mental health problems to engage in a full life in the community.
08 February 2002
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 A training pack for GP Educators
This pack looks at the typical health problems faced by people with severe mental illness and details a number of ways to combat them.
18 October 2001
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This brief guide explains how to to set up and run crisis resolution services. It includes a summary of research carried out in the field.
06 September 2001
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 For Mental Health Services
This tool enables mental health service providers to assess how effective they are in meeting the needs of service users from minority ethnic groups and to identify strengths and weaknesses within their local service.
15 May 2001
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 A framework and list of the practitioner capabilities required to implement The National Service Framework for Mental Health
This report outlines a framework for the skills, knowledge and attitudes required within the workforce to effectively implement the National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Heath.
12 April 2001
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 The new agenda for primary care organisations commissioning mental health services
This report proposes a set of standards for primary care organisations commissioning mental health services to ensure that they meet local needs.
09 April 2001
FREE
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 An experiment in building bridges between ethnic communities and mental health services in East London
This report gives a fascinating account of the challenges of building bridges between faith communities and mental health services in the London Borough of Newham.
21 February 2001
£7.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
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 The perspectives of mental health service users on community and hospital care
A review of our user-focused monitoring projects that sought the views of people seriously disabled by mental health problems on community and hospital care.
23 January 2001
£15.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
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 Briefing Paper 12
The introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 will have a major impact on the development of mental health law and practice.
30 November 2000
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 Review of Recruitment and Retention in the Mental Health Workforce
This review looks at problems with the supply of staff to work in mental health services and at how recruitment and retention might be improved.
13 July 2000
FREE
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 Community Organisations and Mental Health
This report shows how community projects can engage and support people with mental health problems.
01 June 2000
FREE
Download size: 2 MB
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 A Clinical Tool and Practitioner Manual
A practical tool for risk assessment and management in mental health services.
01 June 2000
FREE
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 Using Opportunities for Inter-Agency Partnership in Mental Health
The report explores lessons on joint working from the literature, from site visits and from expert experience.
14 March 2000
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 Improving Care for Detained Patients from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities. A visit by the Mental Health Act Commission to 104 Mental Health and Learning Disability Units in England and Wales
This report looks at the care that people from Black and ethnic minority communities receive when they are detained under the Mental Health Act.
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06 March 2000
FREE
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 Professional Resource Guide and Carers' Information Pack
A resource pack for those working with families who are living with schizophrenia. It includes a detailed guide to the family approach, psycho-education, family intervention and how to provide practical support for carers.
09 September 1999
£5.00
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 Developing Home Treatment & Assertive Outreach
This practical guide to setting up integrated locality services draws on the experiences of Northern Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust. The pack includes case studies, factsheets and checklists on developing home treatment and assertive outreach teams.
01 November 1998
FREE
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 A Survey of the Quality of Care in Acute Psychiatric Wards
We followed over 200 patients through their stay on an acute ward, discovering how they were admitted, what treatment they received and how they were discharged.
26 August 1998
£9.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
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 Models of Extended Community Support Services for People with Mental Health Problems
This report describes different models of social and practical support available from voluntary sector-run community support services.
11 July 1998
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 24-hour Response for People with Mental Health Emergencies
This report compares an innovative crisis resolution team with a traditional hospital-based service.
14 May 1998
£12.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
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 User-Focused Monitoring of Mental Health Services
This report demonstrates that people with severe and enduring mental illness can have a voice in decisions about the mental health services that they receive.
17 March 1998
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 Review of Care for People with Severe Mental Illness who are hard to engage with Services
This report on assertive outreach sets out a strategy for meeting the needs of people with severe and enduring mental illness who have difficulty in engaging with services.
09 March 1998
£9.00 for a paper copy or FREE to download
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 A Guide to Good Practice in the Provision of Housing and Support for People with Mental Health Problems
Home from Home aims to help voluntary sector housing managers find ways of recognising and providing the best support for people with mental health problems.
01 December 1997
FREE
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 Effective Partnerships in Mental Health
This report provides a series of Key Indicators for reviewing the effectiveness of joint working relationships.
01 November 1997
FREE
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 Role of Support Workers in Community Mental Health Services
This study looks at the work of non-professionally trained staff working directly with users in community mental health services.
01 September 1997
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 The Future Roles and Training of Mental Health Staff
This report was the first to look at the different roles and training of mental health staff.
06 June 1997
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 A one-day Visit to 309 Acute Psychiatric Wards by the Mental Health Act Commission in collaboration with The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Commissioners visited 118 Trusts in England and Wales, representing 47 per cent of mental health inpatient services.
01 June 1997
FREE
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 The Provision of Community Mental Health Services within a Multi-Faith Context
This report gives a fascinating account of the challenges of building bridges between faith communities and mental health services in the London Borough of Newham.
06 March 1997
FREE
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 Addressing the Needs of Homeless Women with Mental Illness
This report looks at the needs of homeless women with mental health problems.
01 December 1996
FREE
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This report shows how community projects can engage and support people with mental health problems.
10 January 1996
FREE
Download size: 221 KB
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 CMHTs and the People Who Work in Them
A survey of 60 community mental health teams (CMHTs) which examines what teams do, how they function, job satisfaction and burnout among staff.
01 June 1995
FREE
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A study of a supportive work project in a primary care setting.
01 March 1995
FREE
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 A Survey of the Manic Depression Fellowship
A survey of the members of the Manic Depression Fellowship looking at their demographic characteristics, accommodation and employment status along with their experiences of mental health services and professionals.
01 January 1995
FREE
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 The differing views of users, family carers and professionals on services for people with schizophrenia in the community
A survey of over 400 users, family carers and professionals. It highlights what is needed for an effective service.
30 September 1994
FREE
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 User evaluation of case management
This evaluative study from the user’s perspective looks at relationships with case managers, involvement in the care plan, access to services and whether the services were appropriate.
01 March 1994
FREE
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 A National Survey
A comprehensive survey of the structure of community mental health teams (CMHTs) and the process of team working in England.
01 January 1994
FREE
Download size: 225 KB
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