Communications Update
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Pages | 31-32 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/13619322199600009 |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care |
The Mental Health Review 1:1 © Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) 1996 31
This section gives a brief up-date of the some of
the reports, circulars and guidance relating to mental
health services, issued in 1995.
DoH/DoE (1995) Building Partnerships
for Success. Community Care Development
Programmes.
This latest development programme highlights the
areas which the Government considers are priorities
for further development over the next few years.
The major focus is on improving outcomes for users
and carers. There are three components to the
initiative:
improving the quality of life of users and
carers
, which includes work on HoN outcome
scales, Audit Commission and SSI joint reviews,
guidance on race, culture and community care.
Effective Practices focuses on building partnerships
with other agencies and developing new options for
service delivery through a range of studies and
guidance on, for example: continuing care; joint
commissioning; joint working between GPFHs and
social services; shaping social care markets; and the
care programme approach. Finally,
Essential
Foundations
includes management information,
a range of research projects and staff development.
The document details the work in place and
indicates how the results from all the different
projects can be obtained. The document is available
from the Wetherby address (below) or from HMSO.
Clinical Standards Advisory Group (1995)
Report on standards of care for people
with schizophrenia.
Includes a comprehensive audit tool for local
services to assess how well they are meeting the
needs of people with schizophrenia.
Audit Commission (1995) Finding a Place.
A Review of Mental Health Services for
Adults.
A wide-ranging review of mental health care
covering the development of a comprehensive
service, existing use of resources, matching
resources to needs, making best use of resources,
management and co-ordination of services and
purchasing better mental health services.
DoH (1995) An Introduction to Joint
Commissioning.
A brief document which sets out the key elements
of joint commissioning for health and local authority
members; senior health, social services and housing
managers; GPs; and members of private and
voluntary health and social care agencies. Describes
joint commissioning as ‘the process by which two
or more agencies act together to co-ordinate their
commissioning taking joint responsibility for
translating an agreed health, housing and social
care strategy into action for the benefit of service
users and carers’.
NHS Executive (1995) High Security Services:
Changes in Funding and Organisation.
Announces the changes and highlights three key
features of the new arrangements:
●a national high security psychiatric services
commissioning board within the NHS Executive;
●establishment of three new special health
authorities responsible for managing services
by the special hospitals;
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