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Mental health patients set to benefit from pioneering new digital services

Seven areas across England are set to trail-blaze digital services for mental health patients, which will include innovative apps to improve care and online access to ‘real-time’ patient records. NHS England has announced new funding for seven mental health trusts to enable these organisations to pioneer world-class, digital services to improve care for patients experiencing […]

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Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View: 17,500 forces veterans and service personnel to benefit from £9m investment in new and improved NHS mental health services

NHS England is set to launch (April 1) a brand new mental health service which has been specially tailored to support and treat ex-armed forces veterans and service personnel who are approaching discharge. The newly commissioned £9m service, known officially as the NHS transition, intervention and liaison (TIL) veterans’ mental health service, will act as […]

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Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View: NHS acts to cut inappropriate out of area placements for children and young people in mental health crisis

NHS England will today announce the next steps in the drive to ensure children and young people don’t have to travel far from home for mental health care, funding between 150-180 new beds. The increase will be focused on those who are most unwell, be dependent on need and placed in under-served parts of the […]

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NHS England announces new mental health services to help 30,000 people

A range of mental health services starting next month will provide support for tens of thousands of people living with long-term physical health issues, in new services announced by NHS England today. From January we will be working with 22 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services covering 30 Clinical Commissioning Groups to offer more […]

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Overall Patient Experience Scores: 2016 Community Mental Health Survey update

Today NHS England published the latest statistical information on patients’ experience of mental health services in the NHS. This is an update to include results from the 2016 Community Mental Health Survey. This survey is part of a rolling programme of NHS patient surveys overseen by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which cover a range of services including […]

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New ratings published for mental health and maternity

NHS England has today published new ratings on mental health and maternity, highlighting where areas are performing really well, but also helping to identify where improvements can be made. As part of the new Clinical Commissioning Group Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCGIAF) for 2016/17, an initial baseline rating of CCGs in six clinical priority areas is being […]

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Mental health digital innovators to apply for new £400k fund

Innovators of digital technology which improves people’s mental health can now apply for a share of a £400k fund to speed up the adoption of their product by the NHS. Six to eight innovations will be chosen to take part in the NHS England funded Digital Development Lab being delivered by mHabitat. Over seven months the […]

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Six mental health pilot sites to redesign services and prevent patients being admitted to hospital miles away from home go live on 1 October

NHS England has announced six pilot sites across the country to drive the design of new approaches to delivering children and young people’s mental health services and secure mental health services. The sites will be tasked with reducing psychiatric hospital admissions and time spent in hospital, putting an end to the practice of adults and […]

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Six mental health pilot sites to redesign services and prevent patients being admitted to hospital miles away from home go live on 1 October

NHS England has announced six pilot sites across the country to drive the design of new approaches to delivering children and young people’s mental health services and secure mental health services. The sites will be tasked with reducing psychiatric hospital admissions and time spent in hospital, putting an end to the practice of adults and […]

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