"Reasonable adjustments" under the UK's Equality Act 2010: An enquiry into the care and treatment to patients with intellectual disabilities in acute hospital settings.

Objectives: To understand the views of qualified medical practitioners regarding "reasonable adjustments" and the quality of the care and treatment provided to adults with intellectual disabilities when admitted to acute hospitals as inpatients.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews took place with 14 medical practitioners, seven from each of two acute hospitals, with a thematic analysis of the resulting data.

Results: All 14 medical practitioners reported problems in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with intellectual disabilities.

Assessment of an incentivised scheme to provide annual health checks in primary care for adults with intellectual disability: a longitudinal cohort study.

Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) have many comorbidities but experience inequities in access to health care. National Health Service England uses an opt-in incentive scheme to encourage annual health checks of patients with ID in primary care. We investigated whether the first 3 years of the programme had improved health care of people with ID.

Mortality of People with Intellectual Disabilities in England: A Comparison of Data from Existing Sources.

Background: At present, there is limited statistical information about mortality of people with intellectual disabilities in England. This study explores the data that are currently available.

Materials And Methods: Four recent sources of data about mortality of people with intellectual disabilities in England are reviewed: the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with intellectual disabilities (CIPOLD); the 2013 Joint Health and Social Care Intellectual Disability Self-assessment Exercise; local registers of people with intellectual disability; and analysis of Cause of Death certificates.

Numbers and policy in care for people with intellectual disability in the United Kingdom.

Background: Statements or commitments making use of numbers have an important place in government policy. They appear at all stages of the policy process: campaigning, formulation, monitoring and evaluation. Many types of source are involved including research studies, national survey information, routine operational data collections and special systems devised to monitor particular initiatives.

How to select representative geographical areas in mental health service research: a method to combine different selection criteria.

Background: Mental health service research can require the selection of representative geographical areas for data collection. This study designed and tested a new method of combining different relevant selection criteria within the context of a survey of housing services for people with mental health disorders in England.

Methods: Six criteria were considered relevant to select areas for the survey: deprivation, urban-ness, provision of community mental health care, residential care provision, total mental health care spend and pressure on housing generally.

Developing mental health indicators in England.

Objectives: This paper reports on the construction of a set of indicators for mental health and the publication of a report for England's Chief Medical Officer. The report was the seventh in a series of reports aimed at initiating public health action to improve health at a regional level in England.

Study Design: Observational study using routine data.

From commitment to reality: early intervention in psychosis services in England.

Aim: To evaluate the extent to which Government plans for early intervention in psychosis services have been realized in England, the UK.

Methods: Data from the Mental Health Mapping Exercise and Department of Health quarterly performance monitoring were used. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the nine regional early intervention in psychosis Leads from the National Institute for Mental Health in England in order to ascertain their views and experiences regarding early intervention in psychosis service development.

Adult mental health care in England.

The policy background and current overall provision of mental health services for working age and older adults in England are described. Following the introduction of a new National Service Framework in 1999, an annual service mapping exercise was introduced. Data presented draw heavily on the mapping for 2003.

[Social deprivation and mental health. Replicability and applicability in the Italian context of the resource allocation methods developed in the United Kingdom].

Aims: Most of the available evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic indicators of social deprivation and patterns of use of mental health services has been produced in the United Kingdom, where the Ministry of Health has developed a resource allocation formula based upon the results of those studies. The main aim of the paper is to evaluate the replicability in the Italian context of such research, and of the resulting allocation strategies.

Methods: Detailed description of the resource allocation method currently adopted in the United Kingdom, whose main purpose consists in reaching the best balance between available funding and patterns of need.

Crisis resolution/home treatment teams and psychiatric admission rates in England.

Background: Introduction of crisis resolution/home treatment teams has been associated with a reduction in hospital admissions in trials. Between 2001 and 2004 there was a rapid expansion in the numbers of these teams in England.

Aims: To examine whether national implementation of these teams was associated with comparable reductions in admissions.

Quality indicators for international benchmarking of mental health care.

Objective: To identify quality measures for international benchmarking of mental health care that assess important processes and outcomes of care, are scientifically sound, and are feasible to construct from preexisting data.

Design: An international expert panel employed a consensus development process to select important, sound, and feasible measures based on a framework that balances these priorities with the additional goal of assessing the breadth of mental health care across key dimensions.

Participants: Six countries and one international organization nominated seven panelists consisting of mental health administrators, clinicians, and services researchers with expertise in quality of care, epidemiology, public health, and public policy.

A needs index for mental health care in England based on updatable data.

Background: Mathematical models relating rates of mental health care use to population characteristics such as social deprivation are widely used in both planning and researching mental health services. The models currently in wide use in England are based on data mostly derived from the 10-yearly population censuses. These are perceived to be out of date many years before new census data are available for their replacement.