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DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

Community Care

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. “It seems a waste of resource.”

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

There is nothing short of a changing of the guard occurring in the United States healthcare system, writ large, including the mental health system. There are two cardinal features shared by most of these community contexts, including primary health care. The traditional mental health model is no different.