Improving handovers across a North London Mental Health Trust

Improving handovers across a North London Mental Health Trust

The GMC Survey June 2011 highlighted that trainees in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (BEH-MHT) were dissatisfied with the Trust's handover process. At this time there were no Trust guidelines on handovers. A quality improvement project was developed to create a consistent out of hours handover process and to improve staff satisfaction thereafter. Handover guidelines were imple...

London Looks at Mental Health

Boroughs recently spent an intensive weekend in two study conferences concerned with mental health problems in their areas: one run by the NAMH and the other by the London Boroughs Committee. Since April 1st of this year, these authorities have been responsible for running education, health, children's and welfare services previously administered by county and county borough councils. The NAMH'...

Public Consultation: Modernising and Improving Mental Health Services Across Clyde

Abdi Sanati ( Consultant Psychiatrist , North East London NHS Foundation Trust )

Welcome to the winter 2014 edition of the philosophy SIG newsletter, in which we have the privilege of a contribution by Dr Helen Spandler. As an expert in sociology of mental health, she has provided an insight into the work of Peter Sedgwick (pictured above). In Psychopolitics, Sedgwick predicted the use of anti-psychiatry’s rhetoric by right-wing governments’ in reducing the mental health se...

Improving out-of-hours handovers.

Why all GPs should be bothered about Billy The 2014–2015 QOF overhaul1 retires three critical cardiometabolic indicators from the severe mental illness (SMI) domain, keeping only blood pressure. Yet cardiovascular disorders, rather than suicide, remain the single biggest contributor to 15–20 years reduced life expectancy. Two decades of cardiometabolic risk prevention has successfully reduced c...