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Preventing suicide toolkit
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has updated ‘Preventing suicide: a toolkit for mental health’. The update takes account of the lessons learnt since the original toolkit was publi… more →
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Preventing suicide toolkit
rdashknowledge wrote 2 weeks ago: The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has updated ‘Preventing suicide: a toolkit for menta … more →
Safer lithium therapy
rdashknowledge wrote 3 weeks ago: The National Patient Safety Agency has issued a Patient Safety Alert ‘Safer lithium therapy … more →
Preventing early conduct problems and reducing crime
rdashknowledge wrote 4 weeks ago: The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has published ‘The chance of a lifetime: preventing ear … more →
Swine flu: guidance for mental health services
rdashknowledge wrote 4 weeks ago: The Department of Health has published ‘Swine flu: updated guidance for mental health services … more →
Counting the Cost
rdashknowledge wrote 1 month ago: The Alzheimer’s Society has published a report ‘Counting the Cost’. The research i … more →
Latest Issue of Evidence Based Mental Health - now available
rdashknowledge wrote 1 month ago: Evidence-Based Mental Health alerts clinicians to important advances in treatment, diagnosis, aetiol … more →
Report on dementia research summit
rdashknowledge wrote 1 month ago: One of the commitments made in the National Dementia Strategy was to hold a ministerial summit on de … more →
NHS Direct launches online mental health checker
rdashknowledge wrote 1 month ago: An online mental heath checker has been launched by NHS Direct in response to rising numbers of peop … more →
Latesst NICE guidance on depression issued - October 2009
rdashknowledge wrote 1 month ago: Clinical guideline: The treatment and management of depression in adults (partial update of NICE cli … more →
A summary of changes to direct payments
rdashknowledge wrote 2 months ago: A summary of changes to direct payments leaflet has been published by the Department of Health. From … more →
Creating a stronger information, advice and advocacy system for older people
rdashknowledge wrote 2 months ago: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published ‘Creating a stronger information, advice and advo … more →
Mental health statistics
rdashknowledge wrote 2 months ago: In-patients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and patients subject to … more →
Vetting and Barring Scheme
rdashknowledge wrote 2 months ago: From 12 October 2009 the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (or POVA) scheme has been replaced by the V … more →
Common mental health disorders: identification, assessment and care pathways for common mental health disorders
rdashknowledge wrote 2 months ago: NICE have been asked to develop a clinical practice guideline on Common mental health disorders: ide … more →
New wave of talking therapy sites
rdashknowledge wrote 2 months ago: The Department of Health has published ‘New wave of talking therapy sites for World Mental Hea … more →
Survey of mental health acute inpatient services
rdashknowledge wrote 3 months ago: The Care Quality Commission has published its ‘2009 survey of mental health acute inpatient se … more →
Mentally ill man covered with feces attacks Continental Airlines attendant
Deborah Clark Ebel wrote 11 months ago: This is a sad story. You may have heard about the Continental Airlines passenger who went into the p … more →
Okay, let's see now ... a little pill or hard-won insight. Which shall it be?
Deborah Clark Ebel wrote 1 year ago: I came across an interesting article in Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times about a study that reports … more →
Storm Brews Over Georgia's Mental Health Hospitals
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Deborah Clark Ebel wrote 1 year ago: Mental health care is difficult to provide; inpatient mental health care is even more so. There is n … more →
