Promoting Mental Health: Leading By Example With World Mental Health Day coming up on Saturday 10 October, after over six months of the pandemic and as we go into winter with no clear end in sight, Marie Watkins reflects on what we have done to protect and support the mental [...]
Learning Disability Services: Keeping staff who care The news that there will be extra funding for learning disability nursing apprenticeships is obviously very welcome to the sector, which has struggled with falling numbers of registered nurses over the last five years. When a cohort of new nurses comes through, we [...]
Modelling the unknown: filling the gap in mental health demand and capacity modelling Demand and capacity modelling in mental health is difficult Accurate demand and capacity modelling in mental health, where the vast majority of provision is community based, has always been challenging. Demand for mental health services is hard to predict across a [...]
Working together to design new neurodiversity services Transforming Care is a nationally driven programme to improve health and care services so that more people with a learning disability or autism can live in the community, with the right support, and close to home. Alongside this initiative, there are an increasingly [...]
Digitally Delivered Therapy The Covid-19 pandemic has catapulted many of us into the digital realm in order to continue to work and stay connected whilst social distancing to protect the NHS. One area where an increased focus on digital solutions may lead to significant positive outcomes for individuals is in [...]
Mental Health: Delivering Differently Whilst the impact of COVID-19 on physical health services is quite rightly at the forefront of everyone’s minds, the pandemic will also impact on mental health services. The vast majority of specialist, psychiatrist-led mental health provision is in the community, in clinic settings and in people’s own homes, [...]
