CM Mental Health

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998 Plans to improve services for children, elderly people and those suffering from mental illness are...

YoungMinds, a mental health charity for children and youths, launched an initiative last month to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people.

The number of patients being placed in detention and receiving Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) increased in 2011/12 according to a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), published last month. The report, Inpatients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983, and patients subject to supervised community treatment, annual figures, England 2011/12, found that the number of detentions in NHS and independent hospitals reached 48,600 last year, an increase of 2,300 (5%) on the previous year.

The latest figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show that prescriptions for Alzheimer’s drugs are six times higher than a decade ago.

Dementia drug donepezil has greater benefits for moderate to severe Alzheimer’s sufferers than for those in the early stages of the disease, researchers from King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry have found.

Community Care Market News (News) July 2004 More than two thirds of adult placement carers in England are not registered with regulators,...

After carrying out 40 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes looking after people with learning disabilities in a post-Winterbourne blitz’, the government regulator has concluded that service users are often not at the centre of their own care.

A survey published last month that nurses are concerned about cuts to services for people with learning disabilities.

Community Care Market News (News) November 2001 The Judith Trust, a charity for people with learning disabilities, has released a draft workbook...

New guidance published by the Children’s Partnership shows how those working in foster care and with looked after children can best support new Staying Put arrangements that allow children in foster care to remain in their placements until age 21.