Healthcare Commission Reveals The Extent To Which Acute Mental Health Wards Are Failing Patients Commenting on the
Healthcare Commission's report 'The pathway to recovery: A review of NHS acute inpatient mental
health services', Emily Wooster, Policy Officer at mental
health charity Mind said: "While we are encouraged to see that the
Healthcare Commission has identified a number of high performing trusts, we are deeply concerned that nearly one in four patients are still being treated by trusts rated as 'weak'.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com104 Reps. Send Letter Asking Bush To Halt Potential Rule That Could Limit Birth Control Access One-hundred four House members on Monday sent a letter to President Bush calling on him to "halt all action" on a proposed regulation being developed by the Bush administration t
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Source: www.medicinenet.comMental Health Implications For Girls Experiencing Serious School Failure Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade - being expelled, suspended or dropping out - were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than girls who did not have these problems. New research published this week in the Journal of Adolescent
Health showed that girls who had early conduct problems in elementary school also were at increased risk for depression in early adulthood.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMental Health Could Be Improved By Three-Point Plan In Wake Of Healthcare Commission Report, UK A three-point plan to improve mental
health services in England has been proposed today by Unite, the country's largest union. The template for action follows stinging criticism of the mental
health system by the
Healthcare Commission. One finding revealed that 45% of psychiatric nurses and 15% of patients had been physically attacked in the last year.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comN.Y. Insurance Dept. Fines HealthNow For Denying Claims From Women Seeking Infertility Treatment The
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HealthNow New York will be forced to pay more than $1 million for improperly denying claims from women who were infertile and seeking treatment and failing to give enough notice of rate increases, the Buffalo News reports (Epstein, Buffalo News, 7/21). The
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