Making recovery a reality in your community
This briefing urges commissioners to tackle the poorly integrated support received by those with overlapping mental health, drug and alcohol needs.
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Peer support in mental health care: is it good value for money?
Increasing numbers of peer support workers are now being employed in mental health services.
Mental health: the whole picture
Community budgets that pool funding for services could dramatically improve mental health provision. This ‘whole place’ approach should be backed in the Spending review.
Recovery: a carer’s perspective
This briefing paper suggests ways in which informal carers can support recovery and looks at how mental health services can give the best possible help to do this.
Peer support workers: theory and practice
This paper examines the concepts and principles of peer support and presents examples from organisations which now have peers in their workforce.
Peer support in mental health care: is it good value for money?
This paper makes a first attempt at assessing whether peer support provides value for money, looking specifically at whether peer support workers can reduce psychiatric inpatient bed use.
A need to belong
What leads girls to join gangs? Girls with links to gangs are, on average, three times more vulnerable than most other children in the Youth Justice system, according to this report
Briefing 46: The NHS Mandate and its implications for mental health
The briefing outlines key actions for NHS England and clinical commissioning groups to deliver improvements in the way we treat long-term conditions and tackle health inequalities.
What the Francis report means for mental healthcare
Originally posted in the HSJ blog Leadership in Mental Health, 6 February, 2013 The Francis report today set out some 290 recommendations to protect NHS patients from neglect and poor care. The report’s recommendations reach across the health services, from the accountability of individual professionals for their own conduct to the roles of the national
The Mental Health Treatment Requirement
The MHTR has unfulfilled potential to offer offenders with mental health problems the option of a sentence in the community.