Mental Health Bulletin No. 361

Today is worldwide Suicide prevention day. For more information follow the IASP link in bulletin no. 361 . Meanwhile here at home as a consequence of the Winterbourne scandal the Care Quality Commission plans to regulate homes acccording to the level of risk to their service users

Mental Health Bulletin No. 360

Bulletin No 360 includes a report: reducing the cost of assessments and reviews: an adult social care briefing for councils published by the Audit Commission. and indicates that better assessment methods will lead to major savings

Mental Health Bulletin No. 359

Bulletin No. 359 is another large edition with all the usual sections. In the publications section is a new report from the Department for Communities and Local Government: Making every contact count: a joint approach to preventing homelessness  which will be of interest to everyone in both mental health and social care

Mental Health Bulletin No. 358

Bulletin No. 358 is a bumper issue and includes no less than three NICE consultations: dementia, looked after children and conduct disorders in children. Also large sections on all the usual specialities

Mental Health Bulletin No. 357

Reports abound this week following the investigation of Winterbourne View. South Gloucestershire council initiated an independent serious case review. Hot on it's heels Mencap has published a report Out of Sight on the abuse and neglect of people with learning disabilities. Read all this and more in this week's bulletin, no. 357

Mental Health Bulletin No. 356

All quiet on the Department of Health front this week. Quite a few interesting news items on children's mental health and services. For all this and all aspects of mental health and social care download bulletin no. 356

Mental Health Bulletin No. 355

In the news last week: the government published its mental health implementation framework which aims to give organisations the basis to put into effect the six key objectives of it's strategy: No Health without Mental Health a reality. Read about this and much more in bulletin No. 355

Mental Health Bulletin No. 354

Mental Health Bulletin No. 354 has a large section on learning disabilities. There is also an interesting commentary from the King's Fund on the future of social care in The National News section

Mental Health Bulletin No. 353

One year on from the Dilnot report it appears that nothing much has changed in the provision of Social Care. Read more in the News section of Bulletin No. 353

Mental Health Bulletin No. 352

Numerous research articles on dementia, depression, schizophrenia and many other aspects of mental health included in this week's bulletim. No. 352 is available to download now