Managing Mental Health Services

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-335-23124-9
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

- What are the key tasks that a mental health manager needs to fulfil? - What are the six key steps needed to develop manageable mental health services? - How can managers not just survive but creatively improve mental health services?This is a practical, no-nonsense book designed to help managers of mental health services cope, survive and constructively fulfil their role. It has been written to help managers to function in an increasingly complex mental health service arena. In clear, jargon-free language it aims to demystify key managerial terms, to provide an understandable summary of the relevant policy and legal framework, and to provide signposts to assist managers in making their way through the maze of service planning and service development options. Managing Mental Health Services will be a leading practical handbook in its field, a point of reference for hands-on managers, and a source of stimulating advice, tips and guidance in mental health service management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, Amanda

Thornicroft, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section A: Context
Introduction
Policy background
Section B: Six key steps for developing manageable mental health services
The vision
agreeing the guiding principles
Estimating population needs
Making an organizational diagnosis
Writing the strategic business plan
Delivering the service components
Review and evaluation
Section C: The six key managerial tasks
Managing the change process
Human resources 'the untapped potential'
Managing budgets
Creating a robust infrastructure
Allies or adversaries
Surviving the future
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Reynolds is Lewisham Borough Manager within the adult service of Lewisham and Guys NHS Trust. Prior to this she worked at the Maudsley Hospital, initially as a Directorate Manager within the adult services and then as a Service Development Manager assisting with the reprovision from Warlingham Park Hospital in Croydon. She is a trained psychiatric nurse who first gained her management and project skills working in a housing department with the homeless mentally ill in a joint financed service experience.

Professor Graham Thornicroft is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust in a Community Mental Health Team in Croydon since September 1996. For the previous five years he worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Camberwell, and took part in developing a wide range of Community Mental Health services. He is also Head of the Section of Community Psychiatry (PRiSM) at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, which undertakes a wide range of research in the field of mental health service evaluation, cost-effectiveness, needs and outcome assessment, and psychiatric epidemiology.