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Hippocrates Prize for Poetry
and Medicine: new annual competition with a £15,000 award fund for
a poem on a medical subject
All winning and
commended poems will be published in a book of 46 poems. The
highest ranked 300 entries will also be published electronically.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2010.The 2010 awards will be announced at an international symposium
on poetry and medicine to be held on 10 April 2010.
Judicial Appointments
Commission recruiting medical members
The Judicial Appointments Commission is
recruiting 20 new
specialist medical members for the Mental Health Tribunal,
which is part of the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber. The
closing date for applications is 27 January 2010.
New health manifesto: recommendations
for children and young people
The Royal Society for Public Health and the UK
Faculty of Public Health have published
a manifesto for legislation that would ban smoking in cars with
children, phase out trans fats and put in place a minimum price for
alcohol.
The Nation’s Dignity
Ambassador: personal account of Sir Michael’s first year
Sir Michael Parkinson has written a
personal account of his year as the nation's Dignity
Ambassador. He talks about how and why he got involved in the
Dignity in Care Campaign, the places he visited, people he met
along the way and experiences of the services available. Sir
Michael praises the people who inspired him and calls for
out-of-date stereotypes of older people to be banished and for
dignity to be at the heart of care.
Interim report: Improving Dementia
Services in England
The National Audit Office has published a new
interim report entitled,
Improving Dementia Services in England. According to the
report, the Department of Health has developed an ambitious and
comprehensive strategy for dementia.
Work for mental health and
inclusion
Employment is key to improving mental health
and aiding recovery for people with the most severe mental health
conditions.
Work, Recovery and Inclusion sets out a strategy to
deliver a radical increase in the number of people in contact with
mental health services going back to work.
Better protection for
vulnerable adults
The Department of Health has announced the
foundation of a Safeguarding
Adults Board, which aims to ensure that the most vulnerable
people in society will be better protected by local agencies such
as councils, the police and the NHS.
Government’s response to
CAMHS review
Keeping Children and Young People in Mind explains how the
Government is responding to the review’s recommendations. It
includes a description of what effective local services look like
and details of a package of support to help local areas to deliver
this..
Delivering same-sex
accommodation progress report
This report outlines progress of the drive launched by the
Department of Health in January 2009 to build on the work already
underway across the NHS to provide same-sex accommodation for
patients.
New report recommends
‘Mindfulness’
Mindfulness-based-therapy should be routinely
available on the NHS to treat recurring bouts of depression,
according to the Mental Health Foundation.
The report argues that if more GPs could offer the therapy to
their patients it would slash the financial burden of depression,
which costs the UK economy £7.5 billion a year.
Project to reduce suicides on railways
The Samaritans and railway operator, Network Rail, have launched
a
£5 million
project that aims to reduce the number of suicides on
the railways. This new five-year partnership aims to cut rail
suicides by 20% and will involve training for rail staff in dealing
with potential suicides and the aftermath of a suicide.
Heavy
drinking placing an ‘unsustainable burden’ on NHS
The report,
Too Much of the Hard Stuff: What Alcohol Costs The NHS, calls
for improvements to systems to identify, assess and treat patients
with alcohol problems, as well as a wider change in society's
attitudes towards drink.
NHS Clinical Leaders Network recruiting
Associate members
The NHS Clinical Leaders
Network (CLN) is currently recruiting Associate members and
would like you to get involved.
Do you receive the World Psychiatric
Association News?
This is now available online:
Read December 2009 WPA News.
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