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National Audit of Dementia: memory assessment service spotlight audit 2021
This report looks at community-based memory assessment services in England and Wales. It found that the average waiting time from referral to diagnosis has increased to 17.7 weeks since 2019, up from 13 weeks. Other key findings include: over 70 per cent of services experienced periods of closure, and over 80 per cent had staff redeployed during 2020; as part of their initial assessment, 61 per cent of patients had a discussion recorded about their eyesight, 58 per cent had a discussion recorded about hearing, and 76 per cent had a falls history discussed and recorded; and CT/MRI scans were requested for 47 per cent of pat...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 16, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

National Clinical Audit of Psychosis: England national report for the Early Intervention in Psychosis Audit 2021/2022
Royal College of Psychiatrists - Based on data from 10,557 case-notes submitted by 54 trusts in England, this audit report presents national and organisation-level findings on services provided to people with first-episode psychosis (FEP). The report commends teams for maintaining early intervention in psychosis (EIP) service delivery at a high level in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. It found that 66 per cent of teams had an increase in staff in the past year. The report also looked at the disparities in EIP care between different groups of people with FEP to highlight inequalities.ReportMore detail (Source: H...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 18, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs

Eliminating inappropriate out of area placements in mental health
Royal College of Psychiatrists - The government ’s deadline to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements for adult acute patients by the end of March 2021 has now been missed by a full year. Sometimes hundreds of miles away from home, patients are unable to access their usual support networks while at their most vulnerable, often finding t heir care seriously disrupted with long term implications for their recovery. The NHS spent £102 million on inappropriate out of area placements in the twelve months up to and including March 2022 – the equivalent to the cost of the annual salary of over 900 consultant ps...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 13, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs

Medical emergencies in eating disorders: guidance on recognition and management
This report finds that signs that someone with an eating disorder is dangerously ill are often missed by healthcare professionals due to lack of guidance and training. The research finds that hospital admissions for eating disorders have increased by 84 per cent in the last five years reaching a total of 24,268 admissions. Children and young people with eating disorders are the worst affected with a rise of 90 per cent in the five-year period. This guidance is aimed at frontline staff so that people with eating disorders needing urgent care can be identified and treated earlier.GuidanceAppendicesRoyal College of Psychiatri...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 19, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health NHS performance and productivity Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Perinatal mental health services: recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women
This report summarises the latest evidence base for the extent and impact of perinatal mental disorder and opportunities for intervention. It sets out: best practice principles; guidance on effective interventions; and workforce recommendations.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 28, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs

National Clinical Audit of Psychosis – national report for the Early Intervention in Psychosis Audit 2020/2021
This report provides national and organisation-level findings on the treatment of people by Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams in England, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the services provided.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 13, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

‘ New ’ advice … Major milestone …
Major milestone: Royal College releases new guidance on stopping antidepressants Today we welcome the new patient information leaflet, entitled ‘Stopping Antidepressants’, published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The leaflet distills many years of work by researchers, campaigners and the prescribed harm community, which has jointly challenged previous understandings of antidepressant withdrawal as being a relatively benign experience for most people. So glad – it’s only taken about 15 years for them to catch up with what we knew back then… (Source: seroxat secrets...)
Source: seroxat secrets... - September 24, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized Addiction Seroxat Withdrawal Source Type: blogs

Next steps for funding mental healthcare in England: prevention
Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) - The RCPsych has identified four areas that must be fully and sustainably resourced if access to quality of mental health services in England that have been promised by government is to be realised. These are: infrastructure; prevention; people; and technology. This paper focuses on prevention and considers the next steps for funding mental healthcare in England, with a specific focus on public health and prevention, promoting resilience in social care and budgeting for workforce growth, education and training.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 14, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs

COVID and pregnancy
As a member of the departmental EDI group, I wrote this as an email to Library and Leicester Learning Institute staff, as part of a series on how COVID affected protected groups. Here is the email, minus anything specifically University of Leicester.All links were checked on 3rd July 2020.NHS,including information in British Sign Language.NHS Inform (from NHS Scotland): haslinks to health information in languages other than English, and the COVID information may include information about pregnancy. There is information in Arabic, Bengali, British Sign Language, Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian...
Source: Browsing - September 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs

Improving mental health services in systems of integrated and accountable care: emerging lessons and priorities
This report sets out recommendations for local and national health and care leaders to support the prioritisation of mental health as local areas develop into integrated care systems (ICSs).ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 1, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Integrated care Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Exploring mental health inpatient capacity
This report says that hundreds more NHS mental health beds are needed in England to help end the practice, known as out-of-area placements (OAPs), of sending severely ill patients far from home for treatment. The report explores the pressures on inpatient mental health services across Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in England, drawing on a range of datasets, published research and interviews with staff working on mental health services.ReportRoyal College of Psychiatrists - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 5, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Delivering the NHS long-term plan's ambition of ageing well: old age psychiatry as a vital resource
Royal College of Psychiatrists - This guidance is to help local areas plan and deliver specialist services, led by old age psychiatrists, to meet the needs of older people. It brings together views from older people, service users, carers and a wide range of health and social care professionals.GuidancePress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 21, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Position statement on antidepressants and depression
Royal College of Psychiatrists - This position statement sets outs the Royal College of Psychiatrists' view on promoting optimal use and management of antidepressants. It discusses the challenges with prescribing antidepressants, including considering the evidence around efficacy, benefits and harms, ensuring they are used when clinically indicated and managing withdrawal. The statement includes range of recommendations aimed at the UK health departments, national bodies and commissioners.Position statementPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 29, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Working well together: evidence and tools to enable co-production in mental health commissioning
Royal College of Psychiatrists -This resource was commissioned by NHS England to support delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan. This document aims to improve local strategic decisions about, and the provision of, current and future mental health services for children, young people, adults and older adults. This includes people who are not in contact with mental health services, because of existing barriers to access or for other reasons. This document also talks about co-production with people who are in at-risk populations.GuidanceRoyal College of Psychiatrists - publications ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 15, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Our Dead on Every Shore
By MAYURA DESHPANDE I once made a serious error. The patient had taken an overdose of paracetamol, but because I was single-handedly covering three inpatient acute psychiatric wards due to sickness of two other trainees which medical HR had been unable to cover, with a lot of agency nurses who did not know any of the patients well at all, and also because this patient frequently said she had taken overdoses when she had not, and declined to let me take bloods to test for paracetamol levels, I believed she was crying wolf. She collapsed several hours later, and died. I was overwhelmed with feelings of guilt, inadequacy, b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: NHS Patients Physicians Adverse Events Mayura Deshpande Source Type: blogs