Glasgow NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles.We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over ...
access to crisis support was regarded as problematic; the concept of multi-disciplinary team working had yet to be fully realized with evidence suggesting that some psychiatrists working in the resource centres had not embraced many aspects of the new approach to service delivery including a focus ...
and be helped to lead as fulfilling a life as possible. The MWC’s visiting, monitoring and casework are organised in teams consisting of health and social care professionals, administrative support and Commissioners, which are supported by a corporate services team that address finances, human reso...
"For this first time, we have brought together a multidisciplinary global team of academic, policy, clinical, and lived and living experience experts with the specific aim of understanding the driving forces behind these deaths together with what needs to be done to tackle this public health cris...
Site visit 2: operational team (refer to Additional file 2: Appendix S2) This visit is critical to establish and discuss the mental health challenges for the local context and the priority mental health needs for the community. Site delegates will be encouraged to speak directly about some of ...
In response to the growing mental health crisis and the corresponding increased interest in workplace mental health by organizational practitioners, we offer this integrated framework for guiding manager and supervisor training related to increasing support for employee mental health at work. Such supportiv...
This booklet is for people who experience mental-health problems and who are interested in getting access to self-directed support in Scotland. Self-directed support is designed to help people to manage their own social-care support and choose the services ...
Despite its obvious ripple into so many aspects of societal health, the ‘No Health without Mental Health’ dictum is often afforded only lip service by funding bodies [309]. The crisis-level mental health challenges on planet Earth are often given a back-seat to fanciful and fantastical resear...
intervention at an earlier stage, quality and effectiveness of treatment, and support for those in crisis. The paper covers important and serious topics around the subject of mental health and wellbeing, and is seeking the views of a wide range of people. Specifically, the Govern...
The reports of both these Commissions— Action for Mental Health (1961) and Crisis in Child Health: Challenge for the 1970s (1969)—similarly emphasized the scope of the problem and the need for "a radical reconstruction of the present system" (Lourie, 1966: 1280). Despite all the ...