A service for the elderly mentally ill was started at St Francis' Hospital, Haywards Heath, in 1967. This collection of papers has been published following a grant from the King's Fund. The report gives some account of what has happened since the establishment of the service, the type of services ...
These notes explore how people in the health and welfare services are tackling the problems of developing comprehensive mental health services, in situations where these services are currently based on large institutions serving two or more health districts. Attention has been focussed on the question of how the psychiatric services ...
The purpose of this day conference was to demonstrate the opportunities which exist to put preventive health policies into practice. Topics discussed were: current government policy on preventive health care; the role of health education; preventive mental health in primary care; prevention in obstetrics and gynaecology; health education in primary ...
This report offers advice to West Lambeth Health Authority on the future of its child and adolescent psychiatric services. In considering services offered by West Lambeth HA, the advisory team had in mind a particular model or standard service for child and adolescent psychiatry which could be applicable to any ...
A high proportion of people in the criminal justice system have mental health problems, and often they do not get the support they need. Revolving Doors, a registered charity based in Clerkenwell, runs a scheme in which staff known as link workers provide practical support for people with mental health ...
This working paper aims to revisit findings from the 1997 King's Fund Inquiry on Mental Health and to examine the extent to which primary care mental health services have developed in line with recommendations made at that time. It takes a narrow view of 'primary care' as relating to general ...
The 'Working Together in London' programme was set up by the King's Fund, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Department of Health to establish assertive outreach teams and develop new ways of working that can bring about the social inclusion of people with severe and long-term mental health ...
The King's Fund Mental Health Inquiry 2002/3 revisits many of the issues covered in its previous inquiry of 1997. This identified several areas of concern about the mental health workforce, specifically: a crisis in recruitment and retention of mental health professionals of all disciplines in London; among primary care staff, ...
An important component of the 1997 King's Fund report on mental health services in London was to analyse the costs of service provision. Over the six years since 1997, there have been some major policy and practice developments in the provision of mental health services in the UK, particularly the ...
This working paper says that mental health services have been slower to address inequalities than other health sectors and that this is exacerbating the problem of mental illness in the capital. As a result, services are less likely to be accessible to women from black and minority ethnic groups. The ...