Commissioning mental health services

Mental Health Services

Transforming mental health services.

Specialist teams have had a major impact on service delivery in England. Their effectiveness is now being questioned and integrated teams are developing in some areas. However, the gains made in terms of improved access, engagement and early intervention must not be lost.

Community mental health services.

A. Credentialing and re-credentialing shall be conducted and documented for at least the following health care professionals employed or individually contracted by GCCMH through its Human Resources Department: 1. Physicians (M.D.s or D.O.s), including board certification or board eligibility, if applicable 2. Physician's Assistants Certified 3. Psychologists (Licensed, Limited License, or Tempo...

Mental Health Services

reign of Edward II there was a Statute whose object (interpreted in modern English) was "to protect the lands of idiots" (i.e. "natural fools") and "to provide for the safe keeping of the lands and tenements of lunatics" (i.e. "persons of unsound mind")?a legislative distinction made between the two groups which was maintained throughout the centuries until the term "mentally disordered" was ev...

Mental Health Services

contains the texts, copiously annotated, of the Lunacy, Mental Treatment and Mental Deficiency Acts as now amended, and the bewildered administrator and social worker is therefore no longer under the necessity of using copies of Acts slashed and mutilated by revolutionary alterations, or of checking up on every doubtful section which may or may not still hold good. The book, moreover, also incl...