News, events & blogs
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Mental health challenges, parity of esteem and reflection on latest suicide findings
HQIP clinical fellow Dr Saffron Homayoun - a junior doctor in child and adolescent psychiatry - pens her first blog on World Mental Health Day, picking up on last week's suicide and homicide report and on parity of esteem for mental health.
10 Oct 2016
HQIP response to NHS England decision on NAGCAE
HQIP statement regarding NHS England decision to dissolve NAGCAE.
Suicide increase under crisis services highlights strain on mental health care
Over 200 suicide deaths per year now occur in patients under mental health crisis teams, three times as many as in in-patients, according to a report by The University of Manchester’s National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH).
06 Oct 2016
Audit urges neonatal hospital partnerships following lack of care improvements
NNAP report urges neonatal units to form local hospital partnerships to reduce variation and drive up standards of care for very sick babies.
27 Sep 2016
UK IBD audit highlights potential huge cost savings of using new biosimilar medicines
A new report into the use of biological therapies to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has found that new biosimilar medicines, which work in the same way as the more expensive existing treatments, are safe and effective for patients and if adopted can halve the cost of treatment.
22 Sep 2016