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Trustervecentre Software, a healthcare focused consultancy and software development organisation, has had its dementia assessment solution adopted by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).

The Priory Hospital Dewsbury has opened a new ward (the Jubilee) to provide specialist healthcare for male service users with mild to moderate learning disability, associated mental health needs (including autism) and behaviours that challenge.

More people are waiting for access to talking therapies, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

There are stark inequalities in access to mental health crisis care services for people from black and minority ethic communities (BME) according to MIND, the mental health charity. Mind is calling on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to:

St Andrew's Healthcare, the mental health charity and teaching hospital, has formed a partnership with the Centre for Mental Health, the charity and mental health think-tank. Professor Philip Sugarman, chief exective officer at St Andrew’s says: As a major mental healthcare charity and third sector provider of care to the NHS, we are in a unique position to appreciate the very complex needs of some of society’s most vulnerable people. We are committed to improvement in the quality of mental healthcare in the UK and in the way people access that care. ’Centre for Mental Health has an outstanding reputation for the quality of its policy research and tackles the serious issues that face us. It is widely respected and highly influential and we believe that this partnership will make an important contribution to the public debate that must take place about how we adequately support the recovery of people with mental illness.’

Four Seasons Health Care, the independent health and social care provider, has employed Datix, the supplier of software for patient safety and risk management, through which it has created a single patient safety software framework.

There need to be more bespoke care pathways for mental health patients, according to Professor Philip Sugarman, chief executive of mental health charity St Andrew’s Healthcare.

Care UK, the provider of health and social care services in the UK, has formed a partnership with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to provide for adults in the south-east recovering their mental health and wellbeing.

Stakeholders called last month for pilots to be developed to assess personal health budgets for long term mental health service users.

The Oxford University research team behind a newly published report on healthcare management from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has praised the UK’s largest mental health charity, St Andrew’s Healthcare, as a shining star’ and best-in-class’.