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Assessing hearing ability in inpatient settings

01 April 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

In an audit of hearing difficulties among users of a specialist inpatient service for people with mental illness, learning disability or acquired brain injury, 655...

Recovery-focused practice in mental health services

01 April 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes the ‘recovery approach’ to mental health problems and how the authors worked with colleagues to introduce it at their trust.

Creativity and mental health care

01 June 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

With greater awareness of the concept of creativity, mental health practitioners can learn to combine novelty, effectiveness and ethicality with discipline and...

Benchmarking best practice in mental health care services

03 March 2010

Nursing Management

Feature

Best-practice benchmarking is recognised as a valuable method in the development of practice. However, implementation of benchmarking procedures is not always...

Community care for the severely mentally ill: a review

06 November 1996

Nursing Standard

Mental health nursing

In the UK. large and often isolated mental hospitals have been the setting for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered for over 150 years. However, in the...

Home - based

01 September 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Mental health services should offer 24- hour care for people in acute mental health crises (DoH 1996). For people with severe mental illness this is most commonly...

Len Bowers: the man behind the Safewards model

10 February 2016

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Colin Parish interviews the driving force behind the Safewards approach, Len Bowers, as he prepares to retire from the profession.

Home treatment team reduces numbers of acute admissions

01 July 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes the work of the Belfast home treatment team. It describes the structure of the service, its skills base and aspects of the work it does. It...

Community-led services for mental health care: a study

02 July 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This paper reports findings from a study into the effects of relocating untrained personnel from the hospital into the community, over a nine-month period. The study...

Mental health facilitators in primary care

28 October 1998

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In the context of the National Primary Care Facilitation Programme, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has reviewed the membership of the Mental Health in...

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