Personality Disorder: Everybody’s Business

February 16th, 2010 by Administrator

This short new film examines how new policy and guidelines are helping to improve treatment and management of people with personality disorder.

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Categories: Department of Health, Policy, Video, What is PD

Guardian roundtable debate about mental health care

January 29th, 2010 by Administrator

A recent roundtable of experts, convened by Society Guardian in association with the National Mental Health Development Unit, discussed the New Horizons programme for mental health.

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Categories: Department of Health, Policy, Research

Work, recovery and inclusion

December 17th, 2009 by Administrator

Work, recovery and inclusion sets out a high level vision and series of commitments to support people in contact with secondary mental health services into work.

Categories: Department of Health, Job opportunities, Policy, Recovery, Social Inclusion

New Horizons special briefing

December 5th, 2009 by Administrator

To coincide with the launch of New Horizons, the National Mental Health Development Unit have published a special briefing about the comprehensive programme of action to reform mental health care up to 2020.

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New Horizons programme launches

December 2nd, 2009 by Administrator

Following successful consultation last year, a cross government programme of action has been launched to improve the mental well-being of people in England and drive up the quality of mental health care.

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Categories: Department of Health, Mental health, Policy

Presentations from PD Congress

November 20th, 2009 by Administrator

Over 250 people came together at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, today to celebrate developments in the personality disorder field at the 1st National Personality Disorder Congress. Download presentations from day one.

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Categories: Carers, Commissioning, Legislation, Mental health, Outcomes, PD Congress, PD services, Policy, Research, Service users, Training

New Horizons: towards a shared vision for mental health – consultation closed

October 15th, 2009 by Administrator

The New Horizons consultation has now closed. The Department of Health mental health policy team are currently looking at what people said in response to the consultation and plan to publish the final New Horizons approach before the end of 2009.

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The 1st National Personality Disorder Congress

October 2nd, 2009 by Administrator

The First National PD Congress will be held on Thursday 19 – Friday 20 November 2009 at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. The Congress will bring together service users, clinicians, commissioners, policy makers and managers from community and forensic services and networks for two days of educational, thought-provoking, artistic and inspirational activity.

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Categories: Carers, Commissioning, Legislation, Mental health, Outcomes, PD Congress, PD services, Policy, Research, Service users, Training

Download presentations from the regional workshops

July 1st, 2009 by Administrator

Visitors can access all of the presentations from the regional workshops to launch new commissioning guidance.

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Categories: Commissioning, PD services, Policy

New discussion forum supports regional workshops launching new commissioning guidance

June 30th, 2009 by Administrator

Join our discussion forum and continue the conversations from the regional workshops to launch new commissioning guidance.

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Categories: Commissioning, Department of Health, Policy