Comment & analysis
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Can we be aspirational about quality standards for mental health when resources are so tight?
Joanna Goodrich considers the impact of NICE's aspirational guidance on the delivery of adult mental health care on patient-centred care. (Blog, 22 Dec 2011)
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We need to talk about frail older patients: CQC report
Drawing on experience from our Point of Care programme, Jocelyn Cornwell explores the options to improving the poor results on care shown in the CQC report. (Blog, Jocelyn Cornwell, 20 Oct 2011)
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Lost and confused: Improving hospital care for dementia patients
After the CQC report on quality of care, Anna Dixon asks if acute hospitals are providing the right care for people with dementia. (Blog 18 Oct 2011)
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Who's paying for mental health services for young people?
Sarah Jonas asks what effect will large scale cuts to local authority social care budgets have on child and adolescent mental health services. (Blog, 1 Sep 2011)
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Will the government’s new mental health strategy succeed?
If the government’s new mental health strategy, ‘No health without mental health’ is to have any force behind it, mental health needs to be fully reflected in the outcomes frameworks that will hold the NHS, public health and social care professionals to account for the results they achieve. (Blog, Chris Naylor, 11 Feb 2011)
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Radical changes to mental health services needed to cut costs and improve patient care, says new report
A call to reduce the unnecessary use of hospital beds for patients with mental health problems who could be cared for in the community is among the recommendations in a new report published by The King’s Fund and the Centre for Mental Health. (Press release, 2 Dec 2010)
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Dementia services and prison health care environments to be the focus of new improvement projects
Health care environments for people with dementia are set to be improved as part of the next phase of The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme. (Press release, 25 Mar 2010)
