National Health Service – A New Vision for Mental Health

General psychiatry, still in no-man’s land after all these years

Author: Editorial 8th December 2023 0 Comments

This arti c le by Dr. Martin Deahl (psychiatrist) has been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. It begins: “In 1997 Trevor Turner and I published an editorial in this journal that we titled ‘General psychiatry in no-man’s land’, outlining the trials…
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a coherent system

British Journal of Psychiatry, bureaucracy, continuity of care, electronic patient records, Functionalisation, Martin Deahl, National Health Service, NHS, psychiatry

NHS could give therapy before anti-depressants, under new guidelines

Author: Editorial 25th November 2021 0 Comments

The BBC reports : “People in England with mild depression should first be offered behavioural therapy or group exercise instead of medication, according to new advice. The clinical watchdog [the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)] also recommends mindfulness and meditation…
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collaborative practice

antidepressants, BBC, CBT, depression, exercise, meditation, mindfulness, National Health Service, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), NHS

NHS England launch a “Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care”

Author: Editorial 26th June 2020 0 Comments

In January 2019 the National Health Service (NHS) in England launched a “Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care”, aimed at giving people more choice about – and control over – their healthcare. In terms of mental healthcare this is clearly a…
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collaborative practice

Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, National Health Service, NHS, NHS England, Personalised Care, social prescribing, videos

Intelligent Kindness: Reforming the Culture of Healthcare

Author: Editorial 17th June 2020 0 Comments

The National Health Service (NHS) is obviously of pivotal importance in relation to mental healthcare within the UK. This book about the NHS has been written by John Ballatt and Penelope Campling. The publishers say: “Intelligent Kindness is a powerful new…
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collaborative practice

books, compassionate practice, John Ballatt, kindness, National Health Service, NHS, organisational culture, Penelope Campling

Explore England’s drug prescription data

Author: Editorial 10th June 2019 0 Comments

The prescribing of psychiatric drugs touches on a range of key issues when it comes to discussing a new vision for mental health. Such prescriptions are running at massive and ever-increasing levels. To give just one small example, a July…
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collaborative practice

Clinical Commissioning Groups, EBM DataLab, General Practitioners, GPs, National Health Service, NHS, OpenPrescribing.net, prescription drugs, University of Oxford

Dance lessons for the lonely – on the NHS

Author: Editorial 24th January 2019 0 Comments

The BBC reports (October 2018) that: “GPs in England are being given permission to prescribe patients ‘social’ activities, such as dance classes, to tackle loneliness. The strategy, announced by Prime Minister Theresa May, will also see postal delivery workers checking in…
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a wellbeing society

BBC, loneliness, National Health Service, NHS, social prescribing