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From the director’s chair

01 July 2004

Mental Health Practice

Interact

Nurse directors in the mental health and learning disability fields have set up a national forum. How will this one be different from others? First, it is...

From the director’s chair

01 October 2004

Mental Health Practice

Letter

What has Labour ever done for us?

01 December 2006

Mental Health Practice

Resources

Do you remember the moment in the film Life of Brian when Reg asks the immortal question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ I was reminded of this scene when...

From the director’s chair

01 May 2005

Mental Health Practice

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A general election is always a watershed event, providing an opportunity to revise and renew major national policies. The policy agenda of the main parties is...

From the directors chair

01 October 2005

Mental Health Practice

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The National Institute for Mental Health in England and the Mental Health Foundation has set up a new working group to look at acute inpatient mental health care...

Director’s cut

01 October 2006

Mental Health Practice

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Nurses, psychologists and other mental health practitioners appear to be lining up to lambaste cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) (MHP 10, 1, 6). I find this...

Psychiatric nursing revisited: the care provided for acute psychiatric patients

01 May 1999

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This book reports on a Department of Health funded study - the first serious attempt to study acute in patient nursing since the early 1980s. The study makes a...

Acute Mental Health Nursing: From acute concerns to the capable practitioner

01 October 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This book’s title and the publisher’s claim that it was ‘developed as a guide to the core knowledge and skills required for working in acute inpatient settings’...

From the director’s chair

01 December 2005

Mental Health Practice

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The Department of Health publication Commissioning a Patient Led NHS spells out a new future for PCTs and SHAs. PCTS are going to become larger bodies which will...

From the director’s chair

01 March 2006

Mental Health Practice

Interact

I recently attended a strategy day for mental health services, held to bring together everyone with an interest in mental health issues locally. Our remit was to...