Traumatic brain injury costs £15 billion a year in the UK, says new research
New research highlights the human and societal costs of traumatic brain injury, and its significant impact upon both mental health and risk of offending.
Type: News
Centre supports new call to help people with mental health conditions to quit smoking
The Centre is joining with ASH to call for better help for people with mental health problems who wish to quit smoking.
Type: News
Co-morbidities: physical health and mental health problems together
The cost to the health system and to wider society of mental health problems among people with physical illnesses is considerable.
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NHS England five year vision must support genuine parity between mental and physical health, says Centre
The paper sets out some bold new ideas about how health services can adapt to meet new challenges and offer a better service for people’s mental as well as physical health.
Type: News
“Parity of esteem”
Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. There are however many areas where parity of esteem has not yet been realised.
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Helping patients with complex needs
Supporting GPs to offer help to patients with more complex physical and mental health needs.
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Liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric liaison services provide mental health care to people being treated for physical health conditions in general hospitals.
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New Mental Health Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Networks
This week Public Health England launched a new Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Network whose website includes new profiling tools for Common Mental Health Disorders, Severe Mental Illness, Community Mental Health Profiles and Neurology.
Type: Blog
Outcomes and performance in liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric service models that seek to bring its benefits to the people in our acute care hospitals and medical and surgical care pathways have struggled to defend their value for the want of adequate measures of outcome.
Type: Publication
An innovative approach to mental health support
A group of GPs in the City of London and Hackney have taken an innovative response to the needs of people whose mental health problems are more complex than their doctor can manage alone yet who don’t qualify for specialist services.
Type: Blog