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National Mental Health Development Unit Wellington House Email: info@nmhdu.org.uk |
The NMHDU are the event partners for this year’s Mental Health Today and have work closely with Pavilion to produce the programme. The NMHDU is the national agency charged with supporting the implementation of mental health policy in England, in collaboration with the NHS, local authorities, and other major stakeholders. NMHDU, launched in April 2009, consists of a small central team and a range of programmes funded by both the Department of Health and the NHS to provide national support for implementing mental health policy by advising on national and international best practice to improve mental health and mental health services. It will do this by commissioning or providing:
NMHDU’s work will be developed through co-production between DH and the SHAs, and strategic partnerships with other groups such as the NHS Confederation, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the major mental health third sector organisations. |
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Turning Point Standon House Tel: 020 7481 7600 |
We turn lives around each day by putting the individual at the heart of what we do. We provide a wide range of social care services across England and Wales. Turning Point is the UK’s leading social care organisation. We provide services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability. Our portfolio of mental health service across the country includes assertive community outreach and crisis services, supported housing, residential services for those detained under the Mental Health Act and specific provision. Since our first project opened in 1964, we have prided ourselves on developing life changing services that meet the diverse needs of our service users. By focusing on the person rather than the problem, we aim to provide individually tailored care, enabling people to transform their lives and supporting them to be a part of the community. We work in partnership with a range of agencies and endeavour to provide connected care to help clients address issues such as poverty, unemployment, homelessness or offending behaviour. We also work at a national strategic level to lobby government and other policy makers for change. We turn lives around every day, by putting the individual at the heart of what we do, inspired by those we work with, together we help people build a better life. |
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Society Guardian Kings Place Tel: 020 3353 2000 |
The Guardian has a long term standing commitment to all public services and the charity sector. This has been delivered through its editorial, offering comprehensive recruitment sections and its support of key events. The Guardian continues it’s longstanding support of Mental Health Today. SocietyGuardian is published every Wednesday with the Guardian and has news and editorial features on a range of public services including health, housing, employment and social care. SocietyGuardian also offers a breadth of job opportunities, carrying public services and social care appointments. Furthermore, the Guardian jobs website, with its unique functionality and its sector specific sections, attracts a large user profile of professionals drawn from a range of public services. The Guardian now also offers a unique social care job match service, which hand picks and matches the right candidates to the right jobs. The Guardian, with its unique editorial and effective recruitment offering, has become an invaluable resource for all public services and charity sector professionals. For further details on the Guardian's recruitment solutions, contact your Guardian representative on 0207 611 9111 or at www.guardian.co.uk/jobs |
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Ludlow Street Healthcare www.lshealthcare.co.uk |
Ludlow Street Healthcare provides specialist assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and education services leading to recovery. We offer innovative approaches to complex problems for young people and adults with mental disorders, severe mental illness, acquired brain injury and learning disabilities. We deliver continuity of clinical care through a seamless step down service provided by our own clinicians in our community homes. Based in South Wales, Ludlow Street Healthcare has a proven track record of success for the individual, their families and commissioners. Over 76% of our patients progress from low secure hospitals to community step down services within 12–18 months of being placed with us, thus regaining self-responsibility, independence and social integration. Our ethos is based on the belief that everyone deserves a life worth living. Through positive care and therapeutic intervention we can help our service users achieve goals that they may never have thought possible before. Our recovery model is about helping each individual to develop new skills, self-confidence, independence and self-esteem that not only helps them to get their life back, but builds an enhanced life with meaning as a valued member of their own community, fulfilling their potential beyond their mental illness or learning disability. |
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Ansel Telephone: 0845 200 2020 |
Ansel is the only nationally available, independent healthcare organisation solely dedicated to providing in-patient assessment and treatment for people with personality disorders who may have additional complex needs and have challenged other service provision. Drawing on a team of experienced clinical practitioners and professionals in the field of mental health and led by some of the most respected figures in the sector. Ansel will deliver a community of mental health care services that will make a real and positive difference in the lives of all involved. Offering our services to the NHS and other independent sector providers, Ansel will deliver an integrated healthcare pathway which will be focused on providing services that remain relevant to our patients whilst enabling consistent competency, high quality, best value and inherent flexibility. We are currently accepting referrals for our Nottingham Clinic which will be opening on 1st February 2010. |
