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College news
College responds
to Government Spending Review
Responding to the
Spending Review, Professor Dinesh Bhugra said: "The
ring-fencing of the NHS budget is to be welcomed, as are the
promises to expand psychological therapies for people with mental
illness, to provide treatment for mentally ill offenders in the
criminal justice system, to protect the medical research budget,
and give an extra £2 billion for social care. However, the NHS will
still have to make £20 billion of savings, which will put huge
pressures on services.”
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New report
shows why mental health ‘must be at the heart of public
health'
The College has published
a bank of evidence showing why public health strategies cannot
afford to ignore mental health.
No health without public mental health: the case for
action. In response, Care Service Minister, Paul Burstow
MP, said "The Government is clear that there is no health without
mental health. That is why we will publish both a public health
White Paper and mental health strategy that will break new ground.
The right support at the right time can help people realise their
potential, cope with adversity and hold down a job. This is good
for the individual and good for society too."
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Winners of
RCPsych Awards 2010 announced
The winners of the
second annual RCPsych Awards were announced at a prestigious
ceremony at the Royal Society of Medicine, London on Wednesday 16
November 2010. These awards mark the highest level of achievement
within psychiatry, and are designed to recognise and reward
excellent practice in the field of mental health.
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Vacancies
Interested in communicating
psychiatry to the public? Looking for three ST4 - ST6
registrars
The Public Education Editorial Board,
chaired by Dr Philip Timms, is looking for three motivated ST4 -
ST6 registrars to join the team working on the production of our
award-winning mental health information for the general public. The
appointed registrars will be members of the Board and each
registrar will need to undertake a project related to the Board’s
work. Applicants will need to commit half a session a week at least
18 months. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed at the end
of January 2011.
Please send a short letter and brief CV,
outlining why you think you would be right for the role, what you
can contribute, and the time you have to commit to this work.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 5 January 2011. Deborah Hart
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Psychiatric services for
children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities
This new College Report (CR163) deals with those people falling
between child and adolescent psychiatry and learning disability
psychiatry services. The report is aimed at anyone involved in
planning or helping to develop a psychiatric service for children
and adolescents with intellectual disabilities. This report
replaces CR123 (and formerly CR70).
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Your last
chance to vote for best and worst psychiatry films: nominate
now
The British Journal of
Psychiatry’s Extras section is planning a Top 50 Psychiatry Films series,
beginning 2011. All members are invited to cast their vote for
their five most influential films and their ‘Razzies’. All fiction
and documentary feature films are included in all languages,
including silent Cinema.
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What the College Library can do for
you
The College Library has recently subscribed to some new
journals. You can view the list of new journals available
here. To receive the electronic table of contents for any
journals in the collection, please notify us in the Library.
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Lives
remembered
Saying goodbye to Dr Chris John Mace, former Chair,
Psychotherapy Faculty
Chris died at home on 31
October 2010, having been comforted and supported through his final
illness by Anna his life partner of 20 years and his wife of just 4
months. Chris was a mostly private person and quietly lived with
his knowledge of his terminal brain tumour for 5 months. A service
of Thanksgiving for the Life of Christopher John Mace, 1956 – 2010,
was held in the beautiful Church of the Nativity of the Blessed
Virgin Mary in Studley, in the pre-winter Warwickshire countryside
16 miles south of Birmingham, on Tuesday 9 November 2010.
Janey
Antoniou: service user consultant
It was with great sadness that the
College learned of the tragic and sudden death of
Janey Antoniou on 23 October 2010 at the age of 53. Janey was
first invited to contribute to the work of the College when in 1992
she joined the Changing Minds anti-stigma campaign. Soon her
intelligent, passionate, humorous, yet pragmatic and highly
articulate approach to her own life experience of schizophrenia,
and in advocating for others, warmed her to members, staff and
anyone who worked or spoke with her. Janey soon became involved in
many aspects of College work, including the recent report on
‘Self-harm, suicide and risk’, as a member of the Service User
Recovery Forum and on a number of CCQI projects, including POMH-UK.
She will be greatly missed by friends and colleagues. To find out
more about Janey,
listen to the podcast with Dr Raj Persaud where she talks very
frankly about living with schizophrenia.
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Consultations
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Personal
Health Budgets in Mental Health Survey: Andy Clark RCPsych
Lead for Workforce
Personal Health Budgets
may revolutionise how health care is commissioned and delivered by
devolving much greater power and influence to the decision making
of the individual patient. How will this affect mental health
services?
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists is collaborating with other professional bodies in
this survey, which covers the the mental health workforce.
The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Your
answers to questions will be totally confidential. All members are
encouraged to participate in the survey even if they have not yet
had direct experience of personal health budgets.
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Centre
for Mental Health would like your views
The
Centre for Mental Health is trying to find out who their work is
reaching and how people use it and the publications. They are keen
that their work reaches psychiatrists and is useful to them in
their practice. Help them out by filling in this
short survey. It'll only take you a couple of minutes and you
could win £50 of Amazon.co.uk vouchers in
the prize draw. Deadline: 3 December 2010.
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Other news
Vacancies:
Academy of Royal Medical Colleges
The Academy is looking
to appoint a
Chair and
three Independent Trustees for the new Academy Board of
Trustees. Closing date for Chair is 2 December 2010 and for
Trustees 16 December 2010.
News from other
organisations and the NHS
Choose Life
review
An expert review of
‘Choose
Life’ has acknowledged the progress made by Scotland's suicide
prevention strategy and recommended a closer focus on high-risk
groups. The review of the National Suicide Prevention Working Group
has concluded that the remaining two years of Choose Life should
focus on a refreshed set of objectives and examine the latest
international evidence on best practice.
Call for
gun law change after Cumbria killings
An independent review ordered by Cumbria Constabulary conducted
by the chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers’
Firearms and Licensing Working Group, Adrian Whiting, ruled that
"no reasonable opportunities" within the licensing system could
have prevented the killings. Mr Whiting recommended that a key
improvement would be to establish formal data links between GPs,
mental health and police services to enable medical professionals
to alert police to any concerns over gun certificate holders.
WHO:
Mental Health and Development
This report demonstrates that people with mental health
conditions are vulnerable – not because of any inherent weakness,
but as a result of the way they are treated by society. It
illustrates how development programmes can exclude these people,
even though this is contrary to their goals. It also presents
evidence-based strategies known to improve outcomes for people with
mental health conditions and other vulnerable groups. The WHO
report is a call to action to all development stakeholders.
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