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- Health and Social Care Awards national finalists 2009
- Jim Easton has been appointed NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, the Department of Health announced today.
- Health Profiles 2009 launched
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- Attitudes to mental health problems improving in most areas
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- The Guardian Public Services Awards 2009
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- A Better Future
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- Change4Life survey: too many children not getting enough exercise
- New strategy for a 21st century social care workforce
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- Is fear holding you back?
- A new vision for mental health and well-being
- Recruitment of Local Improvement Advisors
- New Initiative for Supported Employment for People with Mental Health Conditions
- New pilots announced to bring health and social care together
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- University College London chosen to develop training for Stop Smoking Workforce
- The Maze Advocacy Project – A national young people’s mental health project
- New guidance for commissioners and public and mental health promotion leads
- Rethink Launch a New Helpline Service in Gloucestershire
- Individual budgets benefit carers
- 2009 South West Health and Social Care Awards
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- Launch of Healthy Weight for Children Hub website
- New Go Smokefree campaign aimed at pregnant women
- National Dementia Strategy
- New NICE guidelines set to improve treatment and management of people with personality disorder
- Fairer Contributions Guidance: A consultation on the extension and revision of the statutory guidance for charging for non-residential social services in relation to personal budgets
- Time to Change – Let’s end mental health discrimination
- Common Assessment Framework for Adults: A consultation on proposals to improve information sharing around multi-disciplinary assessment and care planning
- NHS Constitution published
- The Strategic Framework for Improving Health in the South West
- Launch of Prison Healthcare Quality Outcome Framework Toolkit
- Safe and Appropriate Care for Young People on Adult Mental Health Wards
- Aspirations and attainment in deprived communities
- Child mental health problems set to double over next decade
- Children with mental health problems ‘to double’
- Launch of the 2009 South West Health and Social Care Awards will recognise the excellent work of staff
- Building fair chances for the future
- Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme (EHE)
- Government helps people back to work
- Is it time for you to get involved?
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: consultation on Monitoring Regulations
- Independent Mental Health Advocates
- Common Assessment Framework for Adults
- Launch of the 2009 Health and Social Care Awards
- Consultation on the Future of Tobacco Control
- New Publication – Recovery from Depression using the Narrative Approach
- Rethink Politics
- Understanding commissioning for voluntary and community organisations (Version 1)
- NHS Choices’ Contract Awarded to Capita Group Plc
- Sir Michael Parkinson and Phil Hope launch first dignity in care award
- Implementing the amended Mental Health Act 1983
- End of Life Care Strategy: Quality Markers Consultation
- Call for Applications to become a Right Here pilot site improving mental health and well being for young people
- Mentoring and Befriending Foundation
- Safeguarding adults: a consultation on the review of the ‘No Secrets’ guidance
- Older people’s quality of life improved through national scheme
- Choice and medication website launched
- 3,000th dignity champion announced
- Landmark report published on World Mental Health Day
- Transforming care and support – housing matters
- Department of Work & Pensions Consultation on Welfare Reform Green Paper
- NICE implementation consultants visit all maternity units
- Ecominds fund launched
- Prisoners left ‘In the dark’ on indeterminate sentences, says Sainsbury Centre report
- Suicide and the Internet – Updating the Law
- Working for positive outcomes for health and social care in the South West
- Data standards for social care records due to be approved
- Police stations being overused as places of safety for people with mental health problems, say charities
- Single Equality Scheme Consultation
- Titan Prisons will damage mental health
- Independent evaluation report of “Improving health, supporting justice”
- Deprivation of liberty safeguards code of practice
- £1 million funding for end of life care research institute
- Healthcare watchdog keeps up the pressure to improve learning disability services
- Consultation on Direct Payments regulations
- Healthy weight, healthy lives: why your child’s weight matters
- Response to the consultation on regulations for Local Involvement Networks
- NHS South West annual report 2007/2008
- Technical Guidance for IAPT Key Performance Indicators
- Leadership Development Programme will support Disabled
- Sainsbury Centre welcomes Justice Committee report on effective sentencing
- High Quality Care For All - Next Stage Review
- Targeted approach needed to help black people with mental health problems to get work
- NHS 60th anniversary celebrations across the South West
- Understanding cognitive behaviour therapy
- Launch of National Dementia Strategy
- Improving Health: Ambitions for the South West
- Winners of the 2008 South West Health and Social Care Awards announced
- Older people in the South West have the highest life expectancy in England
- Local people shape local health services in South West
- Dementia champion pioneers changes in care home
- Brennan and Hope Launch National Skills Academy for Social Care
- One month to go before Big Care Debate closes
- Children’s Secretary: No regulation for reciprocal childcare between friends
- Raising the bar on youth sport
- Improved safeguarding arrangements go live
- Career Boost for Local People with Disabilities
- North East Somerset Arts (nesa) Creative Links project wins government funding
- Why we need to banish myths of mental health
- The 'freeze mob' organised by Helen Hutchings and members of the Trust's Time to Change group
- Adult Autism Bill Now Passed
- Downs Sydrome & Dementia
- New Consultation on Personal Budgets Launched
- Popular Pregnancy and Parent Guides Updated
- New regulations for health and adult social care providers
- When mums need help most
- Child obesity ‘levelling off’
- More help for dementia research
- Sir Michael Parkinson’s dignity champions reach ten thousand
- New declaration enshrines acute care quality care for all
- Government takes action on antipsychotic drugs and dementia
- Health Act 2009 receives royal assent
- New art for mental health patients
- The Information Standard
- Long stays in hospital worsens health and dementia symptoms, finds charity
- Dying Matters
- Personal Care at Home Bill introduced to Parliament
- Radical overhaul of support for people with mental health conditions
- New guide for mental health commissioners published
- Practice based commissioning making an impact
- New guidance to support use of choose and book
- Over a million kids weigh in to tackle obesity
- An NHS strategy for a new era
- NHS tackles mixed-sex accommodation
- A Star Wards Publication to improve ward-based activity
- New Quit Kit helps smokers give up for good in 2010
- New campaign launches to give families a healthier Start4Life
- NICE calls for greater support for those returning to work
- Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation
- Local People Can Find Work
- New programme to make health inequalities everybody’s business
- NHS Constitution now backed by law
- Better protection for vulnerable adults
- Government response to the consultation on safeguarding adults: the review of the no secrets guidance
- Top British designers and architects to improve privacy and dignity in NHS hospitals
- World Autism Awareness Day - 2 April 2010
- Professor David Oliver appointed as the new National Clinical Director for Older People
- Professor Alistair Burns appointed as the new National Clinical Director for Dementia
- Helping hand for care and support housing
- Experts unite to boost dementia research
- Multi-Systemic Therapy Briefing
- One in three admit to avoiding people with dementia
- Stay Safe in Swindon
- Pilot Sites Sought by Skills for Health
- Let’s dance 4 free
- Louis Appleby is leaving Mental Health
- Paths to Personalisation
- What differences in care will a future generation experience?
- Mind week 2010 update - we need you!
- Carers Awareness Training for practice staff
- BBC4 Film
- Disabled Trainees Find Full Time Employment
- Refreshing the national Carers Strategy – call for evidence
- New brain scan to diagnose autism
- BMA calls for Government u-turn over decision to scrap PCTs
- 2010 Spending Review (Department of Health report)
- Department of Health - Spending Review 2010
- Public Health England – A new service to get people healthy
- Measuring National Well-being
- NHS Leadership Awards 2010
- Progress made on services for people with learning difficulties
- Bridgwater Office Closed due to adverse weather conditions
- Report from Dementia Link Workers Countywide Forum - 23-11-10
- Health and Social Care Bill 2011
- South West Mental Health Alliance to be formed
- Council cuts 'put more pressure on the NHS'
- 2 South West Projects to receive funding from the 'Reaching Out to Carers Innovation Fund'
- Dementia Features to run on ITV West - 8 March-11 March
- Campaign Launched to Tackle Dementia
- Managers told to tackle dementia drug 'overuse' by GPs
- New map shows undiagnosed dementia cases across UK
- Putting People First - Programme Closure March 2011
- The State of Caring Survey
- New system uses brain scans to spot early Alzheimer's
- Bipolar disorder going undiagnosed in people with depression
- New website will map Cornwall
- National Mental Health Development Units Final News Briefing
- Webchat on the mental health strategy
- Dementia Checks at 75 urged by Alzheimer's Society
- Dementia Workforce Development Portal Launch
- Creativity Works granted funding from Art Council England's National Porfolio
- Get ready for Child Safety Week 2011
- LifeCheck tool launches
- Full response to NHS Future Forum report
- Sir David Nicholson on transition arrangements
- £1 million boost for health and wellbeing boards
- New health profiles launched
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- Florence House Mother & Baby Unit
- Rethink in Bristol to Close
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- Improving dementia care - NHS Memory Services receive £10 million injection
- World Mental Health Day - 10 October 2011
- Rethink Mental Illnes (formerly Rethink Bristol) receive a reprieve
- The Harbour: therapeutic group for carers
- Department of Health & Comic Relief commit £20m to tackle mental health stigma & discrimination
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