Involving service users to identify research priorities in a UK forensic mental health service.

Aims And Method: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a priority for health research. PPI improves the relevance and quality of research. The study aimed to involve service users in identifying research priorities for the service.

Economic implications of current and future provision of English learning disability health services.

People with learning disabilities represent approximately 2.3% of the population. Levels of physical disability, sensory impairment and mental health difficulties provide enormous challenges to the health and social services responsible for their care.

Beds, budgets and burdens: learning disability expenditure v. workload across English health authorities. Comparative review.

Background: Following the closure of asylums and widespread changes in the population distribution of people with learning disabilities, there has been little investigation of changing expenditure requirements of health authorities in England.

Aims: To compare expenditure on learning disability health services across England with the burden of services regionally, as estimated by numbers of people with learning disabilities.

Method: A national database was set up using data from the National Audit Commission and the Department of Health.