Residential care homes for the mentally ill

Kinane, Catherine; Gupta, Kamal

doi:10.1192/pb.25.2.58

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“…The author considers that in principle the findings from the research are transferable for other public services which use catchment areas and populations, such as primary health care (NHS Choices, 2013), mental health services (Kinane and Gupta 2001), schools (Bedford Borough Council 2013;…”

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Testing the Self-Sufficiency of Radiotherapy Catchment Areas

Gandy

2014

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Natural" catchment areas are important for supporting planning and marketing for a range of different public services, to enable improvements in access, quality and productivity. However, established methodologies used in their construction can mask varying patterns of cross-boundary movements. This issue was investigated in relation to radiotherapy services in England, using the Nomogramma di Gandy to test the degree of self-sufficiency of the 50 cancer centres' "natural" catchment areas for 2011/12. The analyses demonstrated differential patterns across the country, and highlighted that an understanding or appreciation of the volatility of patient flows relating to different catchment areas is key to risk analysis when considering future trends in radiotherapy services and referral patterns. The Nomogramma di Gandy represents a high-level filter, which complements catchment area and population methodologies, and uses simple, available data to monitor trends over time. It readily enables the interpretation of self-sufficiency and patient flow dynamics across a large number of centres. In principle, the approach should be transferable to other public services that utilise catchment areas and populations.

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Testing the Self-Sufficiency of Radiotherapy Catchment Areas

Gandy

2014

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Supported Housing Services for People with Mental Health Problems: A Scoping Study

O’Malley

Croucher

2005

Housing Studies

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This paper discusses the findings of a scoping study that aimed to explore evidence relating to models of good practice with regard to accommodation and related services for people with mental health problems in the UK. The literature reveals that there has tended to be an assumption that patients will progress from high(er) to low(er) levels of supported accommodation over time, thereby marginalising the needs of a core group of people with particularly challenging behaviour who require long-term, permanent accommodation with high levels of support. The paper concludes by examining the implications of the scoping study for current UK policies towards those with mental health problems.

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Quality of Life and Unmet Need in People with Psychosis in the London Borough of Haringey, UK

Lambri

Chakraborty²,

Leavey

et al. 2012

The Scientific World Journal

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Objectives. Deinstitutionalization of long-term psychiatric patients produced various community-based residential care facilities. However, inner-city areas have many patients with severe mental illness (SMI) as well as deprivation, unemployment, and crime. This makes meeting their community needs complex. We undertook a needs assessment of service provision and consonance between service users' evaluation of need and by care workers. Design. Cross-sectional study with random sample of SMI service users in four housing settings: rehabilitation units; high-supported; medium-supported; low-supported housing. Setting. London Borough of Haringey. Outcome Measures. 110 SMI service users and 110 keyworkers were interviewed, using Camberwell Assessment of Need; SF-36; Lancashire Quality-of-Life profile; demographic and clinical information. Results. People in “low-support” and “high-support” housing had similar symptom scores, though low support had significantly lower quality of life. Quality of life was positively predicted by self-reported mental-health score and negatively predicted by unmet-need score in whole sample and in medium-support residents. Residents' and care-workers' assessments of need differed considerably. Conclusions. Although patients' housing needs were broadly met, those in low-supported housing fared least well. Attendance to self-reported mental health and unmet social needs to quality of life underpins planning of residential services for those with SMI. Social and personal needs of people in supported housing may be underestimated and overlooked; service providers need to prioritise these if concept of “recovery” is to advance.

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Residential care homes for the mentally ill

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Testing the Self-Sufficiency of Radiotherapy Catchment Areas

Testing the Self-Sufficiency of Radiotherapy Catchment Areas

Supported Housing Services for People with Mental Health Problems: A Scoping Study

Quality of Life and Unmet Need in People with Psychosis in the London Borough of Haringey, UK

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