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Other news
New online resource to support
clinicians with developing leadership skills
A free e-learning resource, LeAD, to
support doctors and healthcare professionals develop clinical
leadership skills has been launched by the Academy of Medical Royal
Colleges, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and DH
e-Learning for Healthcare. This resource addresses the knowledge
components of the Medical Leadership Curriculum (MLC) based on the
Medical Leadership Competency Framework (Enhancing Engagement in
Medical Leadership Project).
Guidance on police responses to
people with mental ill health
The guidance
‘Responding to people with mental ill health or learning
disabilities’ has been developed for the Association of
Chief Police Officers, drawing upon the expertise of health
professionals, charities, third sector organisations and social
care workers
Sainsbury Centre receives final grant
from Gatsby Charitable Foundation
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has
received agreement from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation for a
final grant to sustain its work for the future. The final grant,
equivalent to three years of its previous core funding, will help
the Centre to carry on its work as it seeks alternative sources of
funding in the coming years. Later in 2010, the Centre will
announce a new name and seek to involve new partners, funders and
supporters. The organisations supporting the Centre's future are
the Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation, Mind, the
National Mental Health Development Unit, Rethink and the Royal
College of Psychiatrists.
News from other organisations and the NHS
Doctors can promote fairness and
equality in health
A new report,
‘How doctors can close the gap: tackling the social
determinants of health through culture change, advocacy and
education’, from the Royal College of Physicians, in
partnership with leading health organisations including this
College and the NHS calls on all doctors to make addressing the
social determinants of health part of their everyday medical
practice, reducing where they can the inequitable burden of
disease.
Report demands better quality care in
care homes
A new report by Counsel and Care, ‘Campaigning
for Quality Care in Care Homes’, calls on the new
commission on long-term care to consider how to improve the quality
of care as well as how the care system will be funded in the
future. Pamela Wells, the author, was shocked to find her own
experience being reaffirmed through the witness of others’
experience and learned that there was a lack of care of older and
vulnerable people in many care homes.
Mental health patients fitted with
tracking device
The South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust is fitting patients with ankle bracelets
containing global positioning system (GPS) technology
under a pilot scheme. The GPS device, known as a Buddi
tracker, was originally designed for carers to track dementia
patients who wandered from their homes. More than 60 medium- and
high-risk patients detained at the trust have been fitted with the
device as a condition of day leave or while they are transferred
between hospitals.
NHS failing to support
children with autism
According to the National Autistic Society
(NAS), more than 70% of children with autism also have a mental
health problem which is preventable or treatable, such as
depression or obsessive compulsive disorder. However, these issues
are often dismissed by health workers as "unfortunate" or
"unavoidable" side-effects of autism and all too often they receive
inappropriate, ineffectual and sometimes harmful treatments. The
NAS said too many health professionals have no basic training on
autism while many need support to adapt treatments for autistic
children. Find out more out the
‘Need to Know’ campaign.
Mind Mental Health Media
Awards 2010 are open for entries
Have you watched a TV programme, caught
something on the radio or seen something online that you felt could
make a difference to the perception and understanding of mental
health? If so, tell Mind about it and they
will approach the team or individual responsible and ask them
to enter this year’s Mind Mental Health Media Awards.
To be eligible, the entries must have been transmitted between 7
June 2009 and 7 June 2010. Closing date: 16 July 2010.
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