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A Care Quality Commission inspection in 2015 found great variation in service delivery. The trust's forensic inpatient services were rated as "outstanding". Mental health crisis services, wards for older people with mental health problems and community mental health services for older people were rated "good" but, overall, the trust was rated as "requires improvement" because of concerns about ...
She added: “Labour knows that the Conservatives brought more doctors, more nurses and more investment into the NHS, including in mental health services, as well as long-term funded plans to ...
Mental health prevention is defined as intervening to minimize mental health problems (i.e. risk factors) by addressing determinants of mental health problems before a specific mental health problem has been identified in the individual, group, or population of focus with the ultimate goal of reducing the number of future mental health problems ...
The trust was refused additional funding for community mental health services by Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group in April 2019 although Birmingham coroners had warned, after 8 patient deaths, that underfunding of mental health services was putting patients at risk.
NHS England's Chief Nursing Officer Dame Ruth May issued a statement saying, "The NHS is fully committed to doing everything we can to prevent anything like this ever happening again, and we welcome the independent inquiry announced by the Department of Health and Social Care to help ensure we learn every possible lesson from this awful case ...
People in crisis with mental health problems can now access services through NHS 111 in England, giving them another way to get urgent help. This puts much of the UK ahead of other international ...