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News from other organisations and the
NHS
Monitor urges support for
all NHS providers
Monitor has set out
a range of recommendations as part of its Fair Playing Field
Review to ensure the best providers can offer their services to
patients in the NHS. The Review found that providers from all
sectors face obstacles in offering NHS services and called for more
support to be given to them and to commissioners to help improve
patient care.
NHS England - Placing
patients at the heart of the business plan
NHS England has published a plan confirming
its commitment to putting patients at the heart of improving care
now and for future generations. Putting Patients
First: the NHS England business plan for 2013/14 – 2015/16
is a three year plan that will measure how health and care services
are performing with a strong emphasis on making sure feedback from
patients, their families and NHS staff is heard and acted upon.
General Medical Council:
National training survey 2013 launched
The results of the national
training survey help deaneries, local education and training
boards and local education providers to monitor the training they
deliver. All doctors in foundation and specialty are asked to
respond to the survey online. Closing date: 8 May 2013.
Invitation to join the WHO’s Global
Clinical Practice Network for ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural
Disorders
“The World Health Organization is currently
developing the next version of the International Classification of
Diseases (ICD-11), scheduled for approval in 2015.” Please consider
whether you could contribute to this process. Read more...
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
encourages volunteering opportunities in global health
The Academy has published a statement
encouraging support for the engagement of health professionals in
voluntary work. Professionals who volunteer are able to expand
their knowledge of global health as well as develop their own
skills, to benefit not only the NHS but also improving health and
healthcare in developing countries.
Care Quality Commission finds Mental
Capacity Act not well understood
CQC’s report on
its monitoring of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards reveals
that there is still a widespread lack of understanding of the
wider Mental Capacity Act. CQC’s
evidence shows that in some care homes and hospitals, people’s
freedom to make decisions for themselves is restricted without
proper consideration of their ability to consent or refuse.
PROTECT: What about the
Children?
A joint report by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission
has called on the Government to make it a mandatory requirement for
mental health services to collect data on children whose parents or
carers have mental health difficulties and report on such data
nationally. The report highlights how the lack of identification of
children living with parents with mental ill health has led to them
not receiving the help they need, with some being left at risk of
harm.
Minded: Get Involved as an
Author or Sub-Editor
The Children and Young People's MindEd
e-portal will provide accessible, engaging online training in
emotional and behavioural 'first aid' and essential therapeutic
skills for all those involved in the mental wellbeing and care of
the 12 million children and young people in the UK. The MindEd
Consortium - of which the RCPsych is a member - is looking for
energetic and enthusiastic individuals to write and edit e-learning content
as part of both the MindEd Mental Health and Healthy School Child
Projects. An author training day for applicants will be held free
of charge on 17 May at the RCPCH offices in London.
Mind: Black and
Minority Ethnic groups continue to face barriers to mental health
care
Mind has found that there continues to be
inequalities in rates of access to mental health crisis care
services in England and Wales for people from BME groups and that
many people are still not getting the help they need. Mind has
produced a briefing on the issues for
Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Update from NICE
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Conduct disorders in
children and young people (CG158)
The Association of Educational Psychologists
(AEP) warned the guidelines on conduct disorders in young children
could result in antisocial behaviour being treated purely "as a
medical issue". Kate Fallon, general secretary of the AEP, said:
"I'm frankly disappointed and somewhat alarmed by the position Nice
appears to have set out: namely that difficult behaviour by
children should be regarded as some sort of 'disorder', and that
such behaviour should be considered primarily in a medical
context.”
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Health and wellbeing of
looked-after children and young people (QS31)
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Quality standard for
supporting people to live well with dementia (QS30)
Launching a set of basic standards that
patients should expect from their care, NICE said that care for
dementia sufferers is "patchy". Dementia sufferers should live in
housing which meets their needs, they should be able to participate
in leisure activities and should be able to maintain their
involvement with their local communities."
Professor Dame Sally Davies opens a
new research facility in Oxford
The Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific
Adviser at the Department of Health opened a new
research facility in Oxford which will speed the development of
effective treatments for dementia, mental health and neurological
conditions. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Oxford cognitive health Clinical Research Facility will enable
clinical studies of the size and quality required to translate
important scientific advances into benefits for patients.
Bevan Prize for Health and
Wellbeing
The Bevan Foundation has launched the
Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing with the Aneurin Bevan
Society and with the generous support of Unison. The Prize will be
awarded in recognition of an individual and group or organisation
in any part of the UK who have made an outstanding contribution to
health and wellbeing in 2012, who promote the founding values of
the NHS and work to ensure equality of access and equality of
health outcomes. Nominees could include health care practitioners;
scientists, academics or researchers; authors, journalists or
bloggers; voluntary and support groups; or campaigners and
activists. Closing date: 30 April 2013.
Events and courses
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International Congress and
other College events and courses
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Institute of Psychiatry
& Maudsley Hospital Alumni Reunion 2013
The Psychiatry Research Trust invites all
alumni to attend a reunion and special seminar to be held at the
Institute of Psychiatry on Saturday, 29 June 2013. For further
details, please contact the Psychiatry Research
Trust or tel: 0207 703 6217.
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XXXI Brazilian Congress
of Psychiatry, Curitiba, Brazil: 23 to 26 October 2013
Organized by the Brazilian Association of
Psychiatry and the “Sociedade Paranaense de Psiquiatria”:
Contributions of psychiatry to
the development of medicine’
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2013 World Mental Health
Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health
25 - 28 August
2013: Social Inclusion through Interdisciplinary Interventions,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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YoungMinds: a wide range
of training courses for professionals
YoungMinds has developed a wide range of
training
courses for professionals that are designed to be evidence
based, inter-professional, reflective and informed by children and
young people’s voices.
Rethink: Help to get
through benefits changes
Everything from the bedroom tax to the end of
Disability Living Allowance, crisis loans to Universal Credit:
new pack that covers all the changes announced in full so far,
written in Plain English
Safe use of internet for children:
new guide
The Anti-Bullying Alliance and Sex Education
Forum at the National Children's Bureau have produced a guide for
parents:
"Let's talk about online relationships" to help them to
understand and advise their children on safe use of the
internet.
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