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Minister sets targets to help people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities
5th March 2010
Ambitious new targets to help more people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities in the workplace, are announced today by Minister for Disabled People Jonathan Shaw.
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Relating to Department for Work and Pensions
Monitor issues intervention notice to Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust
5th March 2010
Monitor, the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts, has today used its regulatory powers to require the Board of Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust to appoint external expert clinical advisers to assist the foundation trust to accelerate the delivery of improvements within its maternity service.
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Relating to Monitor
Rock ‘n’ roll antics viral film warns of ‘silent disease’
4th March 2010
New film raises awareness of hepatitis C
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Relating to Department of Health
David Bennett appointed as Interim Chief Executive of Monitor
3rd March 2010
Chris Mellor acting Chair of Monitor – the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts – has today announced that Dr David Bennett has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive of Monitor.
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Relating to Monitor
Three new foundation trusts authorised by Monitor
2nd March 2010
Monitor, the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts, has confirmed the following foundation trusts will be authorised from 1 March 2010:
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Relating to Monitor
Employers and doctors get the facts on fit notes
22nd February 2010
People off work sick will get the support they need to get back to work earlier, as new guidance is launched today.
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Relating to Department for Work and Pensions
Can Dr Brown fix the NHS?
18th February 2010
Dr DJ Brown’s eagerly anticipated guide to patient and staff centred transformation in the healthcare sector, The Meaning of Careful (www.themeaningofcareful.com) has received a warm reception from healthcare professionals. Dr Brown’s innovative approach to creating a more responsive, people centred Health Service and demonstration of how targets can be set locally and decision making devolved back to front line healthcare staff has been well received by NHS staff.
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Relating to Human Capital Valuation
Young people with mental health problems spend record number of days in hospital
16th February 2010
The amount of time children and young people with mental health problems spend in hospital has hit a five-year high, new figures reveal. Released in response to a parliamentary question tabled by Shadow Children's Minister Tim Loughton MP, statistics show that under-18s spent a total of 84,501 days on mental health wards in the first half of 2009/10.
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Relating to Young Minds
Audit Commission Chairman and NHS Trust Chair to join private sector ‘advisory board’
2nd February 2010
Chairman of the Audit Commission, Michael O’Higgins, and Chair of the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, Alan Edwards are to join an advisory board for health management consultancy Finnamore.
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Relating to Finnamore Management Consultants
Mental health discrimination in Parliament 'untenable' says Government
29th January 2010
Outdated legislation that requires MPs who have been detained under the Mental Health Act to stand down has been branded 'untenable' by the Government, representing the strongest move yet towards outlawing mental health discrimination in Parliament. Section 141 of the Mental Health Act means that MPs have to resign if they are sectioned for more than six months, and the Government has come under considerable pressure this month to repeal the law 'as soon as practicable' (1).
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Relating to Mind
