Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Guidance and support for local areas

"The report sets out a clear national ambition to transform the design and delivery of a local offer of services for children and young people with mental health needs."

Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Guidance and support for local areas
NHS England
August 2015

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Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder

"Guidance setting out commissioning standards and requirements for providing community-based eating disorder services for children and young people, with related referral to treatment pathways and access and waiting time standard."

Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder: Commissioning Guide
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, NHS England.
July 2015

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Monitoring of physical health parameters on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving antipsychotic therapy

"In the adolescent unit, we identified a significant lack of physical health monitoring in this high risk age group. A single paged prompt sheet has been shown to significantly improve physical health monitoring in the majority of parameters."

Monitoring of physical health parameters for inpatients on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving regular antipsychotic therapy
N Pasha, S Saeed, K Drewek
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u202645.w3700

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Adolescents leaving mental health or social care services

"Given that, in this report, psychosocial outcomes of young people leaving any services is substantially sub-optimal very serious consideration should be given to holistic improvement of transition policies and young adult services across adolescent service providers. "

Adolescents leaving mental health or social care services: predictors of mental health and psychosocial outcomes one year later
J Memarzia, MC St Clair, M Owens, IM Goodyer, VJ Dunn
BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:185  doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0853-9

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Investing in children's mental health

"Our review of the evidence shows that for all these conditions there are interventions that are not only effective in improving outcomes but also good value for money, in some cases outstandingly so, as measured by the surplus of measurable economic benefits over the costs of intervention." 

Investing in children's mental health: A review of evidence on the costs and benefits of increased service provision
L Khan, M Parsonage, J Stubbs
Centre Forum’s Mental Health Commission, Centre for Mental Health
February 2015

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Children's and adolescents' mental health and CAMHS

"There are serious and deeply ingrained problems with the commissioning and provision of Children’s and adolescents’ Mental Health Services. These run through the whole system from prevention and early intervention through to inpatient services for the most vulnerable young people."

Children's and adolescents' mental health and CAMHS: Third Report of Session 2014–15
House of Commons Health Committee
October 2014

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