Category: Mental Health

Making the right choices: using data-driven technology to transform mental healthcare

Reform, July 2019

This report from the thinktank Reform examines the current landscape of data-driven technologies and their applications in mental health care, highlighting areas where these tools offer the most potential for the NHS and its patients. It discusses what makes mental health different from other areas of health, and the implications this has for the application of data-driven tools. It also examines barriers to implementation, and proposes ways to move forward.

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Missed opportunities: What lessons can be learned from failings at the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, June 2019

A report on the Ombudsman’s investigations into the deaths of two vulnerable young men. It finds significant failings in their mental health care and treatment.

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Working well together: evidence and tools to enable co-production in mental health commissioning

Royal College of Psychiatrists, May 2019
This resource was commissioned by NHS England to support delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan and the resource provides the evidence and tools to enable coproduction in mental health commissioning.  The document aims to improve local strategic decisions about, and the provision of, current and future mental health services for children, young people, adults and older adults.   The recommendations from this document are aimed at commissioners of mental health services, as well as people who need mental health services, their families, friends and carers, and those who work in mental health care and support.
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Independent evaluation of the Think Ahead programme

Think Ahead, May 2019
The Think Ahead programme is a fast-track graduate scheme, offering graduates and career-changers a new route into mental health social work. This independent report contains an evaluation of the Think Ahead programme.  The findings of the report are mainly positive and the authors call for the programme to continue to be developed and supported.
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Caring for the mental health of the medical workforce

British Medical Association, April 2019
This report provides a summary of findings from a large-scale survey into the mental health of doctors and medical students. The survey, which was open to BMA members and non-members across the UK received over 4,300 responses. Four in ten respondents to our survey reported currently experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety, burnout, stress, emotional distress or a mental health condition that is impacting on their work, training or study.
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The Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT) pilot evaluation: Final report

Public Health England, April 2019
The Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT is a computerised clinical assessment tool developed to rapidly assess and identify mental health problems in a range of settings. The tool was tested with 200 Syrian refugees aged 18+ years in one clinic in Beirut, Lebanon who were being processed for resettlement to the UK as part of the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
This report summarises the evaluation findings on how this tool worked in practice at identifying immediate mental health needs requiring urgent attention prior to departure and in facilitating diagnoses, referrals and treatment once in the UK.
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