scholarly journals The supervision register: one year on

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip J. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
First Year ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Adult Mental Health ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Regional Health Authorities ◽  
One Year

A postal survey was conducted within four regional Health Authorities to ascertain how widely the supervision register had been applied in its first year of operation in adult mental health. A 72% response rate was achieved. The results showed that the register has been absorbed organisationally but is less accepted professionally. One hundred and nineteen of the 367 consultants in the sample (32%) had no entries on the register at 31st March 1995. The provision of training on its use had a significant effect on compliance, although London-based services had marginally less registrations per consultant than their colleagues elsewhere. Very few outside agencies had required access to the register.

scholarly journals Survey of delivery of prophylactic immunoglobulins following exposure to a measles case

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Bernier ◽  
C Le Goaster ◽  
H Peigue-Lafeuille ◽  
D Floret
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Laboratory Confirmation ◽  
Hospital Pharmacies ◽  
French Hospital ◽  
One Year ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Polyvalent Immunoglobulins

In France, almost 23,000 cases of measles and 10 deaths have been reported between January 2008 and August 2012. French health authorities recommend delivery of human polyvalent immunoglobulins in the event of exposure to a measles case for some categories of unvaccinated persons (children under the age of 12 months, immunocompromised persons and pregnant women), within six days after exposure and following laboratory confirmation of the contact case. We carried out a postal survey among 368 French hospital pharmacies to evaluate the number of persons affected by this measure between 1 January 2010 and 31 August 2011, to describe the characteristics of these patients and to evaluate the application of the recommendations in terms of delay between exposure and immunoglobulin delivery, and confirmation of the contact case. The response rate to the survey was 73%. In total, 400 immunoglobulin deliveries were listed, most of them for children under the age of one year, and 84% of the 250 administrations with available information occurred within six days after exposure, as recommended. However, only 48% of the 209 treated contacts with available information were laboratory-confirmed when the immunoglobulins were delivered. This survey is the first evaluation of this recommendation since its introduction in 2005 and suggests that the recommendations may need to be updated.

scholarly journals Discrepancies and inaccuracies in statistics for detained patients

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Nemitz ◽  
Philip Bean
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Government Planning ◽  
Regional Health Authorities

While conducting a study on the nature and extent of compulsory admissions to mental hospitals within the four London regional health authorities, discrepancies and inaccuracies were revealed in many of those mental hospital in-patient statistics. The nature and extent of some of these are examined. It is suggested that the value of such statistics for government planning must be questioned as is their value for research. It is recommended that a centralised system of collecting and collating such data be introduced as a matter of priority and that such a system be operated by the Mental Health Act Commission.

scholarly journals Availability and acceptability of home treatment for acute psychiatric disorders

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 169-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Owen ◽  
S. P. Sashidharan ◽  
Lyse J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Home Treatment ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Do So ◽  
Future Plans

Aims and MethodsTo ascertain current levels of access to home treatment for those with acute mental illness and future plans of trusts and purchasing authorities to provide such services. Also, to assess the attitudes of these organisations towards this form of treatment. A postal survey of all mental health trusts and purchasing authorities within the UK was carried out.ResultsOne hundred and seventy-two trusts and 82 health authorities returned questionnaires, representing a response rate of 75% and 67% respectively. Only 27 (16%) of trusts provided home treatment but 58 (40%) had plans to do so. All health authorities and 97% of trusts were in favour of the principle of providing home treatment.Clinical ImplicationsDespite the low levels of provision of home treatment trusts and health authorities were strongly in favourof it. There is likely to be a large increase in its availability over the next 12 months.

scholarly journals Recruitment into psychiatry

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Storer
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Manpower Planning ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Adequate Supply ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Joint Planning ◽  
Regional Health Authorities

The major problem of manpower planning in psychiatry has until fairly recently been one of securing enough posts in the training grades to place doctors wishing to train in psychiatry and to ensure an adequate supply of applicants for consultant posts. Numerous consultant vacancies and a ‘bottleneck’ between registrar and senior registrar grades was the frustrating combination largely consequent upon the failure of some regional health authorities to fund the posts which Joint Planning Advisory Committee (JPAC) had approved.

scholarly journals Duration of maternal mental health-related outcomes after an infant’s death: A retrospective matched-cohort study using linkable administrative data

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wall-Wieler ◽  
Leslie Roos ◽  
James Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychotropic Medication ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
First Year ◽  
Death Of A Child ◽  
Health Related ◽  
One Year ◽  
Child's Death ◽  
Linkable Administrative Data

IntroductionMothers have increased mental illness such as anxiety and depression after the death of a child. Objectives and ApproachThe mental health of all mothers who experience the death of an infant (< 1 years old) in Manitoba, Canada between April 1, 1999, and March 31, 2011 (n = 534) is examined in the four years leading up to, and the four years following, the death of their child to determine how long increased levels of mental-health realted outcomes remain elevated after the death of an infant. Mental health-related outcomes of these mothers are compared with a matched (3:1) cohort of mothers who did not experience the death of a child (n = 1,602). ResultsCompared with mothers who did not experience the death of a child, mothers experiencing this event had higher rates of anxiety diagnoses and psychotropic prescriptions starting 6 months before the death. Elevated rates of anxiety continued for the first year and elevated rates of psychotropic prescriptions continued for six months after the death of the child. Mothers who experienced the death of a child had higher rates of depression diagnoses in the year after the death. Relative rates (RR) of depression (RR = 4.94), anxiety (RR = 2.21), and psychotropic medication use (RR = 3.18) were highest in the six months after the child’s death. Conclusion/ImplicationsElevated rates of depression, anxiety, and psychotropic medication use after the death of a child end within one year of the child’s death.

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