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Racial inequality in mental health services: we can’t fix the problem if we don’t have the data

By Dharmi Kapadia Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity Posted: July 1, 2016

An extra £1 billion a year by 2020-21 and a pledge from NHS England to help a million more people facing mental health problems was announced earlier this year.  Recommendations included the appointment of an “equalities champion”. But, argues Dr Dharmi Kapadia, while racial inequalities in mental health treatment are apparent,  how can they be tackled […]

Tagged With: data, ethnicity, mental health, racial inequality

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Cumulative risks and final straws: what leads to children and young people taking their own lives?

By Cathryn Rodway Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 26, 2016

A new study has identified numerous, complex factors and a pattern of cumulative risk and final straw stresses that may contribute to suicide risk in children and young people. Cathryn Rodway outlines what the findings tell us and points to issues that policymakers should consider for this tragic cause of death in young people. Along with colleagues […]

Tagged With: children and young people, mental health, National Suicide Prevention Strategy, suicide, Youth mental health

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Can routine hospital care after self-harm save lives?

By Sarah Steeg and Dr Pauline Turnbull Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: September 10, 2015

A new study has shown just how high the risks of suicide and all-cause death can be for patients who have self-harmed. Here Sarah Steeg and Pauline Turnbull, joint authors of the study, explain that it is not all bad news. Using real-world data on people who  go to hospital emergency departments following self-harm, we […]

Tagged With: mental health, National Suicide Prevention Strategy, NIHCE, self harm

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Lessons from the Caribbean on integrated healthcare

Dawn Edge By Dawn Edge Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 23, 2015

The NHS has much that it could learn from integrated mental health and primary care in the Caribbean, explains Dr Dawn Edge. The government has signalled that health and social care providers must move from ‘engagement’ to full ‘integration’. While the details are being worked out, there is some (albeit muted) disquiet that mental healthcare […]

Tagged With: Barbados, Caribbean, department of health, Five Year Forward View, integrated healthcare, Jamaica, Kingston, long term conditions, mental health, morbidity, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Institute for Health Research, NHS, NICE, Professor Wendel Abel, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

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Integrating physical and mental healthcare for people with multi-morbidity

By Peter Coventry Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 22, 2015

Multi-morbidity – having more than one long-term health condition, often affecting mental health – is a worsening problem. In the first of two blogs considering the issue, Dr Peter Coventry explains there are ways to improve care. Of the 53 million people living in England, more than 15 million live with a long-term health condition […]

Tagged With: anxiety, CADET, Chronic Care Model, CLAHRC, COINCIDE, collaborative care, Collaborative Interventions for Circulation and Depression, depression, diabetes, health, IAPT, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, King's Fund, long term conditions, mental health, multi-morbidity, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NHS, NICE, Professor Chris Salisbury, Professor Linda Gask, Professor Wayne Katon, TEAMCare

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Don’t forget! Innovation in engagement in mental health delivery

By Dr Joanne Tippett Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: May 16, 2015

The recent general election has seen calls for parity of mental health within the health care system, and this will require innovative approaches to involving people with mental health issues and their carers in service delivery says Joanne Tippett, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. A participant with dementia in a recent event hosted […]

Tagged With: dementia, health and social care, mental health

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Time to tackle the big issues in black and minority ethnic mental health

Dawn Edge By Dawn Edge Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 28, 2014

Against the backdrop of continued policy failures, the time has come to do something that fundamentally changes the way African Caribbean people come into contact with mental health services, says Dr Dawn Edge. Decades of research consistently report that African Caribbean people in the UK are at significantly greater risk of being diagnosed with psychoses […]

Tagged With: African Caribbean, David Bennett, institutional racism, mental health

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