HM Mental Health

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001 Forcing patients into treatment that is not therapeutically necessary could violate the European Convention on Human...

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) May 2005 The education services branch of the Priory Group has acquired the former school of the...

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) August 2004 A new £11m NHS one-stop health centre is being constructed in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. The...

While most prescriptions written by family doctors are appropriate and effectively monitored, around 1 in 20 contain an error, according to research into GP prescribing commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC).

The Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) has secured a £1.4m contract to deliver a GP ‘link worker’ service in Aberdeen over the next...

Too many people who use community mental health services are not being involved in decisions about their own care.

Priory Group has continued to roll out its portfolio of high street walk-in clinics after opening a new £150,000 wellbeing centre in Southamton. Treating up...

Healthcare Market News (News) July 1998 The government this month announced the outcome of its long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), pledging in...

Service users at Cygnet Health Care’s hospital in Beckton, Greater London, have been learning how to interview potential new employees. The scheme is part of mental healthcare and heroin detox provider Cygnet’s strategy to help service users shape the delivery of care at Cygnet facilities. The initiative comes along with the launch of the new Cygnet Health Care website, http://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/, and the roll-out of Cygnet Health Care Welcome Guides manuals describing life at Cygnet Health Care facilities, created with the collaborative input of service users.

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.’