Focus on: People with mental ill health and hospital use

"At any time, one in six adults has a mental health condition and one in 100 has a severe mental illness. Our new research explores what differences in hospital use can tell us about the quality of physical health care for people with mental ill health."

Focus on: People with mental ill health and hospital use
H Dorning, A Davies, I Blunt
The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
October 2015

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Improving feedback from outpatient medical appointments attended by escorted psychiatric patients

"It is therefore vital that good communication channels exist between specialties and that there is a change of culture in psychiatric hospitals where patients’ physical health is considered as important as their mental health."

Improving feedback from outpatient medical appointments attended by escorted psychiatric patients in the North London Forensic Service
K McCurdy, A Croxford
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u205791.w2356

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Do practice performance scores predict emergency admissions?

"We tested whether or not better-quality primary care, as assessed by the SMI [serious mental illness] quality indicators measured routinely in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in English general practice, is associated with lower rates of emergency hospital admissions for people with SMIs"

Do higher primary care practice performance scores predict lower rates of emergency admissions for persons with serious mental illness? An analysis of secondary panel data 
R Jacobs et al.
Health Services and Delivery Research, (16), April 2015

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Transforming mental health: a plan of action for London

"This report describes a vision for the future of mental health provision in London, generated through a process of engagement with key stakeholders in the capital. The vision is based on a collaborative, integrated approach towards mental health that is relevant in London and elsewhere."

Transforming mental health: a plan of action for London
H Gilburt, N Edwards, R Murray
The King's Fund
September 2014

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Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource

"This clinical resource supports the implementation of the physical health CQUIN http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sc-cquin-guid.pdf which aims to improve collaborative and effective physical health monitoring of patients experiencing Serious Mental Illness. It focusses on antipsychotic medication for adults"

Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource: an intervention framework for people experiencing psychosis and schizophrenia
DE Shiers, I Rafi, SJ Cooper, RIG Holt
Royal College of Psychiatrists
2014 update

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Cost-effectiveness of adherence therapy versus health education for people with schizophrenia

"Non-adherence to anti-psychotics is common, expensive and affects recovery. We therefore examine the cost-effectiveness of adherence therapy for people with schizophrenia by multi-centre randomised trial in Amsterdam, London, Leipzig and Verona."

Cost-effectiveness of adherence therapy versus health education for people with schizophrenia: randomised controlled trial in four European countries
A Patel, et al.
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2013, 11:12

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How mental illness loses out in the NHS

"There is one massive inequality within the NHS: the way it treats mental illness as compared with physical illness."

How mental illness loses out in the NHS
Centre for Economic Performance
London School of Economics and Political Science
June 2012

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