Mental Health
Welcome to our collection of resources on quality improvement in mental health care. Have a suggestion for a new resource or want to share some feedback? Let us know here.
Highlighted resources
Community mental health survey 2019
Results from the 2019 community mental health survey show many of those areas identified as in need of improvement in 2018 have declined further, continuing the negative trend of results consistently declining over the 2014 – 2019 period.
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health – Annual Report 2019
The 2019 annual report from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) provides findings relating to people who died by suicide in 2007-2017 across all UK countries. Additional findings are presented on the number of people convicted of homicide, and those under mental health care.
Highlighted Mental Health Videos
This moving and hopeful film shows how mental health patients are empowered through peer support to become students of their own recovery, self-managing anxiety, depression and long-term mental illness.
With Your Health in Mind a mental health team in Salford, have been working on a health improvement project using the Plan, Do, Study, Act improvement approach, to build on existing physical health checks, reduce variation and most importantly improve health outcomes for people with serious mental illness.
Blog posts
Clinician wellbeing has become a luxury rather than a basic human need
As we reach the end of the year and look back, there’s a sense that clinician wellbeing has been at the heart of what mattered in 2019 when it came to how we manage our health services.
That’s probably no great surprise, not least in the wake of the publication in November of the watershed independent report, Caring for doctors, caring for patients, by Michael West and Denise Coia.
At a time when so many doctors still feel that wellbeing is a luxury rather than a basic human need, the report’s headline finding was arresting—if you’re an NHS worker in England, you’re at a 50% higher risk of stress so severe it would be described as “debilitating”…
Rosanna Bevan: The forgotten children at Christmas
At Christmas, children’s wards and hospitals are inundated with gifts—from the public, community organisations, and private companies. Yet, some children who are in hospital over Christmas, are not in children’s wards or children’s hospitals, but in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) inpatient units. CAMHS units rarely receive donations of Christmas gifts; and if they do, it’s a tiny proportion of those received by children’s wards in acute hospitals…
Latest news and research
- Surgical implementation gap: an interrupted time series analysis with interviews examining the impact of surgical trials on surgical practice in England
- Indication documentation and indication-based prescribing within electronic prescribing systems: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
- Impact of altering referral threshold from out-of-hours primary care to hospital on patient safety and further health service use: a cohort study
- Approach to systematically examine the usefulness of quality measures in practice: Minnesotas nursing home quality indicators and scoring approach
- Prescribing medications with indications: time to flip the script
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