A problem that has confronted all specialist personality disorder services is how to achieve a representative proportion of black and minority ethnic service users for the population they serve. A new service in the East End of London identified this problem in their study. Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Tennyson Lee (from the Tower Hamlets PD Service) [...]
The Guardian ran the following article on July 9 a couple of days after the conference: ‘Complex Families: Multisystemic Solutions’. A scheme to keep challenging young people out of care or prison through intensive family support won the backing of government ministers yesterday who said it might offer a cost-effective way to deal with antisocial behaviour.
The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) series provides data on the prevalence of both treated and untreated psychiatric disorder in the English adult population (aged 16 and over. This survey is the third in a series and was conducted by the National Centre for Social Research in collaboration with the University of Leicester for the NHS Information Centre for health and social care.
This annual publication summarises information about people detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act in NHS facilities, including high security psychiatric hospitals, and independent hospitals.