The patient will see you now - The Health Foundation

The patient will see you now - The Health Foundation
This free full text document is really hard hitting but easy to read. It focuses upon the doctor patient relationship but it is generalisable to the wider health care context. Some good ideas/ examples also given.

BBC News - Concerns raised over psychiatric unit admissions

BBC News - Concerns raised over psychiatric unit admissions
interesting report form Scotland. It appears that service user involvement is not first on the list for the most vulnerable people in mental health care.

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Happy Midsummer's day everyone hope it brings you wealth and love and a a productive year
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BBC News - Mental health research is 'incredibly underfunded'

BBC News - Mental health research is 'incredibly underfunded'
This is not news although it is worth reminding people that mental illness costs the country a great deal of money in lost work and taxes. When will the NHS realise that it is not all about chemicals and mechanics but about people.

Will graduate entry free nursing from the shackles of class and gender oppression? | Practice | Nursing Times

Will graduate entry free nursing from the shackles of class and gender oppression? Practice Nursing Times

Nurses suffer from oppression too!

Mental Health Shop - 100 Ways to Support Recovery

Mental Health Shop - 100 Ways to Support Recovery

Free down loadable publication with plenty of good advice for professionals and anyone working in mental health. It really does give you 100 ways to change practice and links to other resources. Available from the English mental health charity 'Rethink' Website.

Playing Asylum Seeker | Testimony

Playing Asylum Seeker Testimony

short video from the Inside Stories project - oral histories of people who have suffered from mental illness

Outcomes Star named in White Paper - Outcomes Star - Outcomes Star

Outcomes Star named in White Paper - Outcomes Star - Outcomes Star


This seems to be proving a popular tool for assessing mental health recovery. I just hope people do not become too reliant on it though - it could stop people listening to what's important for the client if it is not on the Star. Or worse practitioners might try to fit people into neat boxes or packages just so they can show everyone what good work they have done.

Ethics: The Ethics of Diversity: A Call for Intimate Listening in Thin Places

Ethics: The Ethics of Diversity: A Call for Intimate Listening in Thin Places

An interesting paper on how listening has little effect if it is not put into action

The vision of recovery today: what it is and what it means for services

The vision of recovery today: what it is and what it means for services
an interesting update on current thinking on recovery

Peer Support: What Makes It Unique?

Peer Support: What Makes It Unique?
this is an interesting (online) paper that discusses the approach of peer support - appears to be more evident in the USA than the UK at the moment but that could all change with the personalisation process going on here at the moment

Publications: An evaluation of mental health service user involvement in the re‐commissioning of day and vocational services - Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Publications: An evaluation of mental health service user involvement in the re‐commissioning of day and vocational services - Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

A useful and perhaps timely publication on service user involvement with lots of practical advise - the same old problems keep coming up though and they are around adequate information and role identification. Asking people what they expect from involvement is not the same as helping them to prepare for the trials and tribulations that they will meet along the way.

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