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Reforming the Mental Health Act: The King’s Fund’s response

Data, funding and workforce – if the government wants its proposed reforms to the MHA to create change these system-wide enablers are as important as individual changes to legislation. Helen Gilburt consider the issues.

By Helen Gilburt - 24 March 2021

Covid-19 one year on: how can the health and care system recover?

As we reach the one-year anniversary of the start of lockdown in the United Kingdom, Richard Murray outlines how a whole-system response will best support staff and patients and help to tackle inequalities.

By Richard Murray - 23 March 2021 4-minute read

A tale of two Acts: the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act, and their interface

Helen Gilburt shares her research into how mental health and social care professionals make decisions around whether to detain people with mental disorders under the Mental Health Act or the Mental Capacity Act – Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Her research uncovered a range of understandings and misunderstandings which impact on practice.

By Helen Gilburt - 9 February 2021 4-minute read

Social prescribing and NHS facilities

How can NHS services use their facilities to better support social prescribing? Ben Collins highlights what’s needed to make NHS sites more welcoming spaces for individuals and communities.

By Ben Collins - 4 December 2020 4-minute read

What is Covid-19 revealing about innovation in the NHS?

Innovation in the NHS has historically been notoriously slow. Ben Collins considers how the Covid-19 pandemic has allowed the system and its staff to go further and faster, and what this might mean for the future.

By Ben Collins - 3 August 2020 4-minute read

The new NHS and mental health: where are we going wrong?

Providing joined-up services that address people’s physical and mental health needs has long been a challenge. Jihad Malasi asks whether primary care networks could be the answer to providing holistic primary care mental health services.

By Dr Jihad Malasi - 23 July 2020 4-minute read

Obesity: time for action

What should a new government strategy on obesity look like? David Buck outlines what is needed to ensure this attempt is successful.

By David Buck - 14 July 2020 5-minute read

Mental health care in the time of Covid-19

Helen Gilburt reflects on the experiences of staff and people with mental health problems during the first months of Covid-19 and urges mental health services to learn from those experiences to plan for the future.

By Helen Gilburt - 3 July 2020 5-minute read

What has Covid-19 taught us about supporting workforce mental health and wellbeing?

The Covid-19 outbreak has exposed gaps in psychosocial support for health care workers. Mary Docherty, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London, considers the action needed to address those gaps and meet the needs of the workforce in the future.

By Dr Mary Docherty - 25 June 2020 5-minute read

Resilience is much more than hospital beds

A resilient health and care system is about more than national action. Sally Warren shares a vision for building local resilience that would allow the health and care system to respond effectively to future crises.

By Sally Warren - 16 June 2020 5-minute read

Checking the system’s blind spots: prioritising the community response to Covid-19

Much media attention has been paid to how acute services are tackling Covid-19, but what about community health and care services? Anna Charles considers the impact of the outbreak on these often overlooked services and the role they might play in the next phase of the response.

By Anna Charles - 5 May 2020

Learning from Grenfell: how can services better work with the communities they serve?

As health and care services rapidly transform to tackle the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, Sally Warren considers the value of working with and within communities to drive change, drawing on the lessons learnt in the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedy.

By Sally Warren - 15 April 2020

Homelessness, health and housing: joining up services

Nicholas Pleace at the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York considers how housing and health can better support those sleeping rough, through collaboration between the two sectors, strong leadership and a willingness to listen.

By Nicholas Pleace - 18 March 2020

One step forward for community services

New standards aim to improve urgent care in the community, but how easily can they be delivered? Anna Charles considers how workforce, social care and the pace of change might pose challenges for implementing these welcome plans.

By Anna Charles - 30 January 2020

Getting to grips with climate change: how can the NHS get to net zero?

The NHS recently announced an ambitious commitment to reduce its carbon footprint to net zero. Chris Naylor looks at what it might take to achieve this goal.

By Chris Naylor - 29 January 2020

Tackling poor health outcomes: the role of trauma-informed care

People who have experienced trauma face a number of barriers to accessing health care. Deborah Fenney explains why a trauma-informed approach is essential for supporting a group that currently face poor health outcomes.

By Deborah Fenney - 14 November 2019

An outsider’s reflections on NHS primary care reform

New Zealander Martin Hefford reflects on his time in the UK and ponders the questions about primary care reform that arose from his conversations with those working in primary care, secondary care and the third sector.

By Martin Hefford - 24 October 2019

Securing money to improve mental health care... but no staff to spend it on

Ambitions to improve the quality of mental health care will fail if they are not accompanied by plans to address staff shortages. Helen Gilburt looks at the effect of staff shortages on staff, patients and quality of care.

By Helen Gilburt - 22 October 2019

Party conference season: the key announcements on health and social care

As this year’s party conference season comes to a close, what have we learned about the main parties’ priorities for health and social care? Richard Murray weighs up the key commitments, from funding and the NHS workforce to social care reform.

By Richard Murray - 4 October 2019

NHS sickness absence: let’s talk about mental health

Rising demand for services and systemic staff shortages are putting NHS staff under increasing pressure. What impact is this having on sickness absence rates in the NHS, and what can be done to reduce the pressure on staff?

By Annabel Copeland - 1 October 2019

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