Improving The Physical Health and Wellbeing of Adult Users of Mental Health Services Through Multi-Agency Working (Adobe Acrobat document)
"A number of recommendations arising from a research project exploring perceptions of the physical health of adults with serious mental health problems have been implemented in the Cambridge locality of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, in England over the last two years. This project reported on findings from parallel focus groups discussions with service users and carers plus interviews with front-line inpatient and community mental health staff..."
Friday, December 10, 2004
A December 3 story at Psychiatric News - "Long-term data will be valuable in convincing policymakers about the effectiveness of treatment rather than incarceration for people with mental illness. Treatment of mental illness in the community, rather than in the criminal justice system, can save communities and local taxpayers money over time. But reversing the widespread criminalization of mentally ill people requires an educated cadre of clinicians to make the case before legislators that diversion of individuals with mental illness from jails and prisons and into treatment in the community is the right thing to do. And it will also require long-term follow-up studies to prove the point..."
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New York Times story - "Scientists in North Carolina have discovered a genetic variation that could predispose people to depression and may help explain why some people who develop the condition get no relief from drug treatments. The findings, posted yesterday in the online edition of the journal Neuron, may allow researchers to develop a test for genetic vulnerability to depression and to create more effective treatments." "nyt" See also, at the Neuron web site, the article Loss-of-Function Mutation in Tryptophan Hydroxylase-2 Identified in Unipolar Major Depression (Adobe Acrobat format).
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Story at DeHaviland - "A new investigation into healthcare provision for people with learning disabilities and those with mental health problems has been launched by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). The organisation is concerned that people with mental health problems or learning difficulties have significantly worse health than the rest of the UK population. The investigation will focus on provision of primary care services, such as access to GPs and will also look at whether healthcare professionals are failing to recognise problems or diagnosing them too late."
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