CPAA News

Healthcare watchdog keeps up the pressure to improve learning disability services

Chris Lozinski — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:44:01 -0500

Healthcare Commission announces further visits to learning disability services and publishes review of specialist adolescent services

Published: 21 August 2008

The Healthcare Commission announced on 21 August 08 that it will visit 48 specialist inpatient learning disability services to examine progress made since its national audit in 2007.

The visits are part of a concerted push by the Commission and other regulatory bodies to raise the standard of care provided to people with learning disabilities.

The Commission last year called for “sweeping and sustained” changes to learning disability services to bring them into the 21st century.

The Commission found that there were unacceptable variations in the quality of specialist inpatient services for people with learning disabilities and that in many, the safety and quality of care was not up to the standard expected of modern services.

2005 Archive

Chris Lozinski — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:29:50 -0500

CPAA Website Archive 2005

2006 Archive

Chris Lozinski — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:26:42 -0500

CPAA Website Archive 2006

2007 Archive

Jennifer Nephin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:08:43 -0600

CPAA Website Archive 2007

Audit throws spotlight on violence in mental health units and highlights areas for action

Chris Lozinski — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:58:46 -0600

Link to RCP Site - NAV National Reports

More than half of nurses on mental health wards report being physically assaulted at work.

Published: 13 February 2008

More than half of nurses on mental health wards report being physically assaulted at work. The figure rises to almost three-quarters for mental health nurses working on wards for patients with disorders such as dementia.

The findings were published today (Wednesday) in the second national audit of violence in mental health services conducted on behalf of the Healthcare Commission by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

CARE PROGRAMME APPROACH (CPA) BRIEFING

Chris Lozinski — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:15:20 -0500

Parents with mental health problems and their children

This Department of Health and Social Care Institute for Excellence briefing summarises why it is important to address the needs of parents with mental health problems and ensure that they and their children receive support. It describes the potential of the Care Programme Approach (CPA) to improve outcomes for affected families. The new CPA guidance recommends that the needs of the parent, the child and the family are assessed routinely at each stage of the care pathway from referral to review. Service activity data should be recorded, collected and used to inform local commissioning, reviewing eligibility criteria for access to assessment and services, as well as professional training and development. In addition, this briefing also references key related policy, guidelines, practice developments and further reading.

Care Quality Commission - enforcement policy

Chris Lozinski — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:35:53 -0600

About the Care Quality Commission

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was established to regulate the quality of health and adult social care and look after the interests of people detained under the Mental Health Act.

Health and social care touches everyone at some point. This gives CQC a powerful and highly responsible role in people’s lives. CQC will, from 1 April 2009, bring together the work of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission, creating for the first time an independent regulator of health, mental health and adult social care in England.

Communicating CPA to Diverse Communities

Chris Lozinski — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:13:34 -0500

Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust – Gaynor Ward

Communicating CPA to Diverse Communities

Chris Lozinski — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:49:12 -0500

Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust – L Sharpe

Comply With NICE Or Pay

Chris Lozinski — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:16:43 -0600

...Care Quality Commission tells trusts

Baroness YoungHealthcare providers could be shut down for failing to comply with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance under plans to make adherence a requirement of the Care Quality Commission's registration scheme.

CQC chair Baroness Young has revealed that organisations from hospitals to GP surgeries will be expected to prove they are complying with national guidelines on clinical effectiveness as part of the new regulator's registration process.

Speaking at NICE's tenth anniversary conference in Manchester last week, Baroness Young said clinical guidance would be "built into" the registration system.