HM Mental Health

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) October 2003 A three-year action plan for improving mental health and well-being in Scotland has been launched...

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) February 2004 Three private sector consortia have been selected to bid for a £300m PFI deal...

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) November 2004 The Department of Health (DH) has warned councils that they are relying too heavily on...

Glen Care has reconfigured a complex mental health recovery service in Maidstone to specialise in treatment resistance cases as part of its strategic move to develop more community-based and non-secure services.

Data released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has revealed that written complaints specifically relating to mental health services have shot up from 9,587 in 2009-10 to 11,749 in 2012-13 – an increase of almost 28%.

Mental health organisations have criticised industry mental capacity guidelines. They argue the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Code of Practice needs to be revised to enable health and social care staff to make more effective best interest decisions on behalf of the estimated one million people in the UK deemed lacking in capacity to do so themselves.

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998 The government has published a new strategy document setting out its proposals to modernise mental health...

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) December 2003 Plans by Partnerships in Care's Care Perspectives unit to redevelop its medium-secure hospital in South...

Mental health patients are set to be able to choose where they receive care following measures announced last month by Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

Healthcare Market News (News) March 1999 A new dedicated unit for the treatment of children and adolescents suffering from eating disorders was...