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Service models in adult psychiatry
This report discusses the separation of care between in-patient and community and within the community. It argues that decisions about the best model of service delivery should be based on evidence that it will deliver better care for patients. It also highlights the need for more responsive crisis services and more access to necessary resources. Report RCP news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 2, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Integrated care Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Liaison psychiatry for every acute hospital: integrated mental and physical healthcare
This report summarises existing evidence of need for liaison psychiatry services in all acute hospitals and then provides evidence for the range of problems addressed, and range of interventions required, to meet core mental health demands in acute hospitals. It also contains case examples that demonstrate the benefit of services; provide detailed considerations for service design, including principle organisational standards, access and response standards, hours of operation, remit and staffing; governance is addressed as a range of clinical and organisational risks and how these can be reduced by liaison psychiatry servi...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 20, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs

This Week in Mentalists – Last Chance to Nominate for the #TWIMAwards Edition
Hi all. The nominations for the This Week in Mentalists will close at the end of Thursday. You have until then to leave a comment on this blog post telling us your favourite mental health blogs and vlogs (note: you need to nominate at least two blogs or vlogs to be counted). The top three in each category will be passed through to the judging panel to pick winners, and the results announced just before Christmas. Several of the judges are esteemed bloggers in their own right. I think I’ll use this opportunity to take a peek at what some of them have been writing about this week. Mental Health Cop has some musings in...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 27, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Zarathustra Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

This Week in Mentalists – The “I’m so OCD” Edition
Hello! This is Bellsie from Obsessively Compulsively Yours here. This week is OCD Awareness Week – a chance to clear up some of the myths that still surround the illness. The term OCD is frequently misused in everyday language, and a recent street survey highlighted that 44% of people felt they had ‘OCD traits’, which clearly shows the lack of understanding that still exists about OCD, with people still confusing non-anxiety provoking traits for the illness. I know that I’m preaching to the congregation here but in honour of OCD Week, I thought that we’d start with a quick round up of some of the OCD blogs that w...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 20, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: obsessivelycompulsivelyyours Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Memory and Forgetting: Forgetfulness and the Self
Memory is an important topic of any psychology course; and I always find it fascinating that you are using your memory to learn about memory. Click here to view the embedded video. Questions I always pose to my classes are what would life be like without memory? Is memory reliable? How much can you actually remember? And we attempt to answer these through the classes. Usually this involves studying the extreme cases of memory such as HM and Clive Wearing to learn about the ‘normal’ functioning of the different memory stores. The institute of Arts and Ideas have just released a new debate on memory, forgetting ...
Source: PsychBLOG.co.uk - August 31, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jamie Davies Tags: Cognitive Psychology ewt forgetting memory Source Type: blogs

'The Dementia Guide' Launched to Help Doctors Provide Support When People are Diagnosed
Being diagnosed with dementia can be a daunting and often frightening experience. I hope that this guide will help patients, families and carers to take some of the fear out of living with the condition. ~Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health +Alzheimer's Reading Room A new booklet to help guide people with dementia and their carers through their journey with dementia is being launched by Alzheimer's Society. The guide is the first of its kind to provide the information you need after a diagnosis of dementia. It offers advice to help people come to terms with their diagnosis and plan ahead and enable them to li...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 30, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Vaccines, Depression, and Type-1 Diabetes—Going Beyond Your Doctor
CONCLUSIONS As per doctor recommendation, I would receive flu shots, my children would continue to be vaccinated, I would live through the nightmare of antidepressants, and our daughter would receive uncontrollable amounts of insulin that caused frequent and potentially life-threatening side effects. Doctors can be dead wrong, partially right, and completely right in their diagnosis, analysis, and treatment recommendations. As per my own research and in consulting with experts, I will never receive a flu shot again, and my children will not be vaccinated again until independent studies proof safety and effectiveness of vac...
Source: vactruth.com - July 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Markus Heinze Tags: Markus Heinze Top Stories 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) Adverse Reaction Depression type-1 diabetes Source Type: blogs

National audit of dementia care in general hospitals 2012-13: second round audit report and update
Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) - This audit report has identified continuing problems in the quality of care received by people with dementia in hospitals in England and Wales. Although there has been positive change, the audit shows that many patients are not receiving key health assessments. It also reveals that less than half of hospital executive boards are routinely involved in reviewing hospital performance data on quality of care received by people with dementia, and two in five hospitals do not provide dementia awareness training to new staff. Audit report RCPsych - news (Source: Health Managemen...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 12, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs

Do you smoke?
Smoking may be a sign of psychiatric illness, says report, after a third of smokers are found to have a mental disorder - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent Smoking may be a sign of psychiatric illness, experts say. Doctors should routinely consider referring people who smoke to mental health services, in case they need treatment, they add. The controversial recommendation from the British Lung Foundation, a charity, comes in response to a major report, Smoking and Mental Health, published this week by the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists with the Faculty of Public Health....
Source: PharmaGossip - April 26, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs