Publications - Topics - Mental Health
The Social Care Needs of Short-Sentence Prisoners
This review identified a range of needs among short-sentence (<1 year) prisoners; the presence of multiple needs was common. Needs included: Accommodation; Employment, Training and Education; Finance, Benefit and Debt; Drugs and Alcohol; Family, Relationships and Social Networks; Emotional Wellbeing; Mental Health; Disabilities including Learning Disabilities and Difficulties; and Thinking, Attitudes and Behaviour. Many screening tools are in use but screening and assessment processes are fragmented. The evaluations of a number of successful projects targeting short-sentence prisoners or similar groups are described together with recommendations fornext steps.
Knowledge Transfer within the offender health pathway in the North East
Evidence-based healthcare is important in any setting. This report uses a literature review and interviews to explore knowledge transfer in prison Healthcare and other offender health settings. There is general agreement about the importance of knowledge transfer and an acknowledgement of the particular challenges in prison settings. A number of interesting examples of knowledge transfer practices and initiatives are being undertaken (including knowledge transfer between professionals, locally commissioned research and reviews, training and educational opportunities). But the current knowledge transfer practices are inconsistent so there is a need to develop an evidence base for a model that is appropriate to each setting.
The Mental Health Minimum Data Set 2006/07 and 2007/08
The Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) was introduced in April 2003, to collect detailed data on the mental health care received by individuals in England. Since that time, data have become available for secondary analysis in batches. Two years data, covering the NHS years 2006/7 and 2007/8 were made available to the Public Health Observatories in August 2009. An analysis of the substantive findings in these datasets was published by the NHS Information Centre. This paper provides an overview of a number of data quality issues emerging from the datasets. We reported on an overview of the data quality in the returns for 2004/5, here we review the issues in these more recent data.
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies - Year One Sites Data Review
A review of the first years work of the first wave of roll-out sites. The report covers the characteristics of people referred and receiving treatment, patterns of treatment and outcomes. It gives both overall and site-by-site analyses (although individual sites are not identified.
Mental Wellbeing Atlas and prototype work on an index
This page contains a set of reports about mental wellbeing. There is an atlas of regional and local authority level maps of factors that influence mental health and wellbeing to help to inform Joint Strategic Needs Assessments. There is a report of short project to develop a prototype index of factors influencing mental wellbeing together with the underlying data in a spreadsheet. Finally there is a presentation of maps using regional data.
Mental Health Observatory Brief 3 - Estimating the Future Numbers of Demetia
People with dementia require substantial amounts of care, particularly social care.
Mental Health Observatory Brief 4 - Estimating the Prevalence of Common Mental health Problems
Planning for the new Department of Health programme to improve access to psychological therapies requires information about the numbers of people requiring its services. The national psychiatric morbidity survey programme provides information about the prevalence of relevant disorders. This Brief outlines a method to apply these findings locally. It is accompanied by a spreadsheet setting out the results of the analysis for PCTs and local authorities in England. Not all those with these disorders need, would accept psychological therapies. The morbidity survey provides further evidence about how prevalent case numbers relate to treatment requirements.
Indications of Public Health in the English Regions 7: Mental Health North East Regional Summary
This regional summary outlines the main findings of the national report, Indications of Public Health in the English Regions 7: Mental Health and compares the North East's position to that of England across the full set of indicators
Indications of Public Health In the English Regions 7 - Mental Health
This report is the seventh in the series "Indications of Public Health in the English Regions" commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer. It has been produced by the Association of Public Health Observatories, led by the North East Public Health Observatory.
Mental Health Care Funding in England
This report sets out total and mental health allocations for each health authority from 1999/2000 to 2002/3 and for each primary care trust in 2003/4.
Occasional Paper No. 24 - The Mental Health Minimum Data Set: A First Sight of the Data
This occasional paper uses the year end returns for 2004/05 to identify the challenges involved in readying this new data source for full national use and to provide an introduction to the key issues in assessing MHMDS data quality and the challenges involved in improving it.
Occasional Paper 02 - Scoping Study of Mental Health Data: Key Messages
This paper provides a summary of key messages from the scoping study undertaken by the Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Durham for the North East PHO.
Information about Mental Health Service Use in England
Detailed intelligence about the prevalence of mental illness, the provision of services, the treatment given and its outcomes is needed now as never before.
