CM Mental Health

Community Care Market News (News) August 2004 Thousands of people in England are being denied 'direct payments' to cover their care needs,...

Community Care Market News (News) November 2002 The Department of Health (DoH) has published a local authority circular (LAC(2002)15) detailing changes to...

Community Care Market News (News) April 2003 The National Housing Federation (NHF) has expressed concern over the implementation of Supporting People on...

Fewer than one in ten small housing associations have a strategy in place to support dementia sufferers or older people. A survey of 88 groups conducted by the Orbit Charitable Trust found only seven had a dementia strategy in place. Two-thirds of small housing associations admitted they did not have a dementia strategy drawn up with a quarter claiming that they did not need one. A further quarter of respondents said a strategy was being developed, while 12 said they had not yet thought about it. Most of the housing groups which responded to the survey said a separate dementia strategy was not necessary because of the size of their organisation. One said it dealt with cases on an individual basis, while another said dementia was dealt with as part of its older people’s strategy. The survey, which follows from Orbit’s research published last year into how housing associations and older people’s organisations can work better together to deliver better services, also found that half of the housing associations questioned do not have an older people’s strategy in place, while 28% do.

With headlines proclaiming the increasing strains that the NHS is under, the latest research from healthcare consultancy LaingBuisson argues that there is a mass of opportunity for innovative and cost effective healthcare providers across all sectors - public, private and voluntary - to step up to the challenge of offering a range of specialist services in new ways, away from traditional hospital settings.

While progress has been made in accessing mental health services and waiting times by the Department of Health (DH) and NHS England, much remains to be done, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

Independent mental healthcare providers should have been inspected under the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) regime by October 2015, according to chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards.

St Andrew’s Healthcare announced last month that it will work with the University of Northampton to develop a new masters degree programme in clinical mental health research.

Community Care Market News (News) April 2000 The government has launched a brief consultation paper on the charging regulations and rules for...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a guide to commissioning care for people suffering from dementia. Formerly the National Institution for Health and Clinical Excellence, NICE took on the responsibility for publishing social care guidance and quality standards under the Health and Social Care Act (2012) in April to bridge the gap between health and social care services (see this issue: News).