With an expanding portfolio of guidance from NICE, it is sometimes hard to recall everything. To help remember what NICE recommends they have produced a Recommendation Reminders section.
Published every month and looking back across our whole back-catalogue of guidance, they provide a useful prompt and briefing for the NHS to review current practice.
Mental Health and Social Inclusion
Making Psychiatry and Mental Health Services Fit for the 21st Century
Position Statement
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has produced a position statement on social inclusion which concludes that the ‘move to socially inclusive practice needs to be built into medical training at all levels, from the undergraduate curriculum to the establishment of competencies for the postgraduate curriculum for psychiatry. Continuing professional development for psychiatrists will be an important tool to promote the cultural change in attitudes and practice required to implement the social inclusion agenda across the profession’.
For the first time in England and Wales, patients subject to certain aspects of the mental health act will have access to an Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA).
Advocacy means many things to different people. This film features the perceptions of people drawn from the voluntary and statutory services about independent advocacy.
More details from National Mental Health Development Unit
The latest national statistics on Attitudes to Mental Illness produced by the Department of Health were released in June 2009. From 1993 to 1997 the questions were asked on an annual basis and then every third year up until 2003.
Since 2007 the survey has again been carried out annually.
Tags: Attitudes, attitudes towards mental illness, Department of Health, Mental Illness, National Statistics, SHIFT
Florid is a website run by mental health service users for people who have experienced mental health difficulties. It’s a website which aims to bring together information relating to mental health in a way that is user-friendly and simple.
Via DH Website : The Government launched Valuing Employment Now – real jobs for people with learning disabilities. This sets out an ambitious goal to increase radically the number of people with learning disabilities in employment by 2025. The Government wants as many as possible of these jobs to be at least 16 hours per week. We aspire to close the gap between the employment rate of people with learning disabilities and that of the disabled population as whole. The current employment rate for disabled people as a whole is 48%. Closing this gap in today’s terms would mean around 45,000 more people with learning disabilities in work than we believe is currently the case.
