Resources
Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
One in four adults experience mental illness at some point during their lifetime, and one in six experience symptoms at any one time – making mental illness the largest single cause of impairment in our society.
A range of tools to help commissioners deliver first class mental health services has been developed by the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (www.jcpmh.info) in collaboration with the Strategic Health Authorities (SHA) Mental Health Leads’ Group (MHLG).
Mental Health Commissioning - practical tools available for 2013 (PDF 388KB)
Mental Health Act 1983 Irregularities - Informing Patients
Members working in mental health settings with detained patients in England and Wales will know that a technical irregularity necessitated the passing of emergency legislation to resolve an anomaly in the approval of Section 12 doctors. Whilst this has not meant that patients were inappropriately or illegally detained there may be questions that patients need answering.
The resources below are specifically designed to assist in that process:
Patient Information leaflet (pdf 38KB)
Informing patients letter from DOH (pdf 811KB)
The Medicines and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
The MHRA have launched a learning module on antipsychotics for clinical practitioners. The self-directed learning package outlines the key risks of this widely prescribed class of medicines. If you would like to know more please read on... Learning package on antipsychotics launched
Welcome to the Mental Health virtual Resource Centre (MHvRC)
The MHvRC aims to provide you with quality information to support you in your field of work. The RCN Library & Information Services, one of the largest nursing library services in Europe, has developed the centre. More information about the general services offered by RCN Library and Information Services can be found at www.rcn.org.uk/library/
All RCN libraries offer a postal service so don't worry if you can't make it to the library in person. We can still send items to you.
Follow the links on the left to access a wide range of resources of particular relevance to nurses working in mental health.
We hope that you find this section of the Mental Health Zone useful and will recommend it to friends and colleagues. If you have any comments or would like to recommend any resources that should be included then please email Ian Jacklin: ian.jacklin@rcn.org.uk
Review of the Medical Theories and Research Relating to Restraint Related Deaths
The Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) which forms the second tier of the Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody, commissioned this review of the medical theories and research relating to restraint related deaths. This report seeks to clarify research from national and international literature to ascertain any common findings in order to provide guidance for staff on safe and effective restraint techniques where there is no other resort in the management of violent and aggressive individuals.
A copy of this report can be found here (736KB)
MHNFS: New MWC Review on the death of Mr O.
The Mental Health Nursing Forum Scotland have issued their new report, ‘Hard to help’, a review of the death of Mr O.
A copy of this report can be found here.
Best Interests Decisions Study – “People and Processes” Report
The Best Interests Decisions Study was the first large-scale national research to find out about professional practices in best interests decisions made under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The study was led by the Norah Fry Research Centre at Bristol University, in collaboration with the University of Bradford and a UK research and development charity, the Mental Health Foundation. The study was funded by the Department of Health and was completed in 2011.
To download a copy of the full report, appendices or lay summary please visit www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications
Help for Depression: Approaches & Treatments for Depression
Help for Depression provides a very comprehensive explanation of the various approaches and treatments for depression as a critical starting point for individuals and/or their loved ones.
For more information, visit: helpfordepression.com
The National Confidential Enquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
The NCISH report is a collation of all suicides and homicides by persons with a mental illness. This is determined by a requirement for coroners and others to submit details of such events to the NCISH team at Manchester University. The team is headed by Professor Louis Appelby.
The report is worth looking at as it presents in a clear manner issues such as prevalence, methods and implications for services. It was by examining such data that measures were introduced successfully into in patient settings that have seen the rates of suicide fall. It also now has comments about follow up following discharge.
The RCN in conjunction with the NHS Confed has agreed to disseminate the findings. Placing the report here is one such way to achieve that aim.
To download this report, please go here (PDF 4.97MB)
Postnote on mental capacity and healthcare
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) has provided clarification on the scope of the basic concepts of decision-making capacity
and best interests. While these are not new concepts in healthcare, different areas of practice are likely to need more time to interpret them in real life settings. Anticipatory decision-making is a newer part of medical law and healthcare experience. Health professionals are positive about advance healthcare planning except with regard to possible inflexibilities. It has not been tested much either in case law or in everyday healthcare practice. The Act has been in operation for 3 years, a short time over which to assess the impact of legislation which took 16 years to develop.
There is a tension between the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act. For more information on the Postnote on mental capacity and healthcare (PDF 402KB)
The Triangle of Care - Carers included: A guide to Best Practice in Acute Mental Care
The 'Triangle of Care' is a therapeutic alliance between service user, staff member and carer that promotes safety, supports recover and sustains well being. The essence of this document is to clearly identify the six key elemtns required to achieve better collaboration and partnership with carers in the service user and carer's journey through a typical acute episode.... The Triangle of Care (PDF 557KB)
Prison mental health: vision and reality
We have a new publication which is now available to download from the RCN website at www.rcn.org.uk/publications
A bespoke compendium of Dual Diagnosis training materials designed for specific care teams to increase knowledge, awareness and understanding
Dual Diagnosis Care Pathways
A bespoke compendium of Dual Diagnosis training materials designed for specific care teams to increase knowledge, awareness and understanding
SANE
SANE services provide practical help, emotional support and specialist information to individuals affected by mental health problems, their family, friends and carers.
Helpline: 0845 767 8000 (6pm – 11pm)
SANEmail: sanemail@sane.org.uk
Support Forum: www.sane.org.uk/DB
Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse
NICE are doing a piece of work on the implementation tools for Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse. To access this guidance please select the following link: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG120
Facing up to the challenge of personal health budgets report
This report is available as Facing up to the challenge of personal health budgets report For any further queries or information about the report please contact Jonty.Roland@nhsconfed.org
A Logical Way of Being : the reality of dissociative identity disorder and other complex dissociative conditions
First Person Plural – the national survivor led association for dissociative survivors of abuse and trauma has produced an introductory information and training DVD - “A Logical Way of Being : the reality of dissociative identity disorder and other complex dissociative conditions”.
Produced in association with The Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma; Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; The European Society for Trauma and Dissociation and the production company Serious Media – it features 3 experts-by-experience who have dissociative identity disorder speaking alongside 3 clinicians from the nhs and private sector who have many years experience of working with clients who have these complex conditions.
Further information about the DVD and how to order it can be found at www.firstpersonplural.org.uk/dvd
Personal health budgets: countdown to roll-out
The Government has declared its intention to begin a national roll-out of personal health budgets from October 2012. In the next 12 months the NHS must prepare itself for the impact of this revolutionary policy if personal health budgets are to lead to a step change, rather than be a stumbling block, in English healthcare.
For more information on the personal health budgets, please download the NHS Confederation briefing (PDF 155KB)
Mental Health Atlas 2011
Produced by the World Health Organisation, this resource can be downloaded here (PDF 6.58MB)
Mental Health Network NHS Confederation
In 2009, the Mental Health Network (MHN) published a factsheet on key statistics and trends in mental health. Two years on we have updated the factsheet, reflecting new figures, statistics and resources. Some of the sources used in 2009 have not been updated since and so for completeness we have included the previous entries.
For more information, download the factsheet (PDF 536KB)
Payment by Results in Mental Health (briefing November 2011) (PDF 89KB)
Mental Health Payment by Results Readiness Review (PDF 234KB)
Guidance on the Administration to Adults of Oil-based Depots and other Long-Acting Antipsychotic Injections
The third edition of this evidence-based good practice guide on management and care of people prescribed depot and other long acting antipsychotic injections was published in September 2011.
Intended for all mental healthcare professionals, the revised and updated guide was edited by Jacquie White, Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Hull and Celia Feetam from Aston University .
The guidance is intended as a clinical companion for all mental health care professionals and includes specific Standard Operating Procedures for administering intramuscular injections in each of the licensed depot and long acting injection sites.
The guidance was commissioned by Janssen–Cilag Ltd, who also met editorial and publication costs. It can be downloaded here (PDF 7.55MB)
All Wales Mental Health Services
As part of the work of the Mental Health Programme Board, Dr Les Rudd and Siân Richards have visited seven Local Health Boards (LHBs) in Wales to discuss, gather and share their practices so that others could consider and learn from them.
Every community has provided excellent examples of innovative practice. Their approaches to improving recovery to meet the needs of Service Users and Carers at the right time, in the right place and in the right way, were particularly striking.
From these self selected examples we have therefore produced an NHS Wales Mental Health Services Compendium of Good Practice which provides a snapshot of pointers for shared learning. Many of the initiatives included are partnership projects with local authorities and/or the third sector. A section on initiatives in partnership with Service Users, gives examples of putting individuals at the centre of their recovery.
The compendium has been designed to:
• Identify models of care and ways of working that have been implemented and shown to deliver benefits to individuals
• Share good practice across NHS Wales, Local Authorities and partner organisations.
To download the compendium, please go here (PDF 1.41MB)
Guidance to Scottish nurses from the mental welfare commission, Scotland
This advice from the Chief Executive, Dr Donald Lyons relates to the operation of mental health and incapacity legislation. To access it, please go here (PDF 127KB)
Levels of investment in mental health services published
The Department of Health has published the latest annual reports on the levels of investment in mental health services in England.
The National Survey of Investment in Adult Mental Health Services discusses the levels of investment in working age adult (aged 18-64) mental health services, and the National Survey of Investment in Services for Older People discusses investment levels in services for people aged 65 and above.
The reports have been produced by Mental Health Strategies and examine the investment in services for the financial year 2010/11. This is the tenth set of such reports for working age adults and the fifth report in the series for older people. To download the report, please go here (PDF 88KB)
Listening to experience- an independent inquiry into acute and crisis mental healthcare
In a year-long independent inquiry, Mind listened to hundreds of people to find out how well crisis services are meeting people’s needs. The results of this inquiry are now available in a report which can be accessed here (PDF 490KB)
New NICE guidance for the longer-term management of self-harm
NICE, the healthcare guidance body, has today published a new clinical guideline on the longer-term care of adults, children and young people who self-harm. This new guideline follows on from the NICE guideline on the short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm in primary and secondary care (NICE clinical guideline 16). The new recommendations focus on the longer-term psychological treatment and management of self-harm.
To access the guidelines, please visit www.nice.org.uk
The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/ 13
This document outlines the business and planning arrangements for the NHS in 2012/13. It describes the national priorities, system levers and enablers needed for NHS organisations to maintain and improve the quality of services provided, while delivering transformational change and maintaining financial stability.
To download this document, please go here (PDF 747KB)
Competency Framework
The development of a competency framework for staff working with people with mental health problems in London has now been launched, and is available on the London Health Programmes website.
To access the document please go here (PDF 844KB)