Gray Health Care News Centre

The Department of Health has conducted a review of its arm’s-length bodies (ALBs). The report of the review, which follows the publication of the White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, sets out our proposals for ALBs in the health and social care sector.

This White Paper sets out the Government's plans to reform the NHS during this Parliament and for the long term. The White Paper details how power will be devolved from Whitehall to patients and professionals.

This is the latest in the series of surveys of secondary school children in England which provides the national estimates of the proportions of young people aged 11 to 15 who smoke, drink alcohol or take illegal drugs.

Mental Health Strategies (MHS) for the Department of Health have published the ninth annual report presenting the results of the finance mapping exercise. It provides details of the level of investment in mental health services for working age adults (aged 18-64) in England for 2009/10 and compares it with the reported results in previous years.

A new Cochrane review has been published which assesses whether the combination of both psychological therapy and pharmacotherapy provides a more effcacious treatment for PTSD than either of these interventions delivered seperately.

This three-part report enquires into, and reports on, why people harm and kill themselves.

This guidance aims to aid prevention and early identification of alcohol-use disorders among adults and adolescents.

The purpose of this Cochrane systematic review is to evaluate the benefits and harms of different treatments for nicotine dependence in schizophrenia.

The new issue of Evidence Based Mental Health Journal contains a wide range of reliable mental health research that has been synthesised and summarised for busy professionals.

The collection has been updated with a number of recently published Health Technology Appraisals.

The latest national statistics on Attitudes to Mental Illness produced by the Department of Health were released on 30 March 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Working towards Women’s Well-being presents clear evidence that some progress has been made in providing gender-specific and gender-sensitive mental health services to meet the needs of women. The report brings together an account of progress on implementation of the recommendations in the 2002 Department of Health report Women’s Mental Health: Into the Mainstream with examples of best practice on the ground to demonstrate this progress. These will have relevance to commissioners, service providers, service users, their carers and advocates.

This guide has been produced to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for people with mental health needs.

The Alzheimer's Research Trust has commissioned the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford to produce a report on the economic cost of dementia to the UK, and the country's investment in research to find new treatments, preventions and cures.

This report evaluates progress in the adoption of the Department of Health's dementia strategy 'Living well with dementia' and states there has not yet been a robust approach to implementation.

This guideline provides an assessment of, and presents the evidence base for, the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical therapies, encompassing psychological therapies, structured exercise and lifestyle interventions, and a range of alternative and complementary treatments, many of which are not routinely available within the NHS.

The NHS standard contracts for Mental Health and Learning Disability and Ambulance Services are published today. The contracts support the NHS Operating Framework for 20010-2011: The contracts should be read in conjunction with the Principles and Rules for Co-operation and Competition and the PCT Procurement Guide.

This document provides the key learning from the national Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) programme.

The full Government response to the final report of the independent CAMHS Review, setting out progress to date and plans for the future of children and young people's mental health. The response also gives examples of the outcomes expected from a good service as an aid for commissioners, providers and practitioners.

The Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service was created under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It started in 2007 and this is the annual report of its second year in operation.