Dr David Griffiths is a practicing GP and the Medical Director of Consultant Connect. In this blog he writes about how Mental Health impacts his work as a GP.
A Doctor Writes – Mental Health is a key part of my job
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About our webinar: How to improve the CAMHS crisis
Child Mental Health crisis has been at the top of the news headlines in recent years – we’ve all seen it. There have been a number of reports, surveys and articles on the topic of CAMHS, to highlight a few recent ones: Just a few weeks ago, an article from The...
Greenwich is tackling Mental Health using Consultant Connect
Adults and older adults with mental health issues in Greenwich, London could see significant improvements to their diagnosis, treatment and care experience when they go to see their GP from this month. Greenwich CCG and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust have just launched a...
Why isn’t Advice and Guidance CQUIN mandated for Mental Health?
In this article, Jenny Welling-Palmer, who has held strategic and operational roles in a number of large teaching hospitals, shares her thoughts. The 2017–19 National CQUIN program is in full swing across the NHS. There are 13 nationally defined CQUINs which aim to...
A THIRD of GP consultations involve mental health – how does this impact practices?
One in four people will experience a mental health problem in any given year, research suggests, with 90 per cent of those making primary care their first port of call for help. It is not surprising, then, that as many as a third of GP consultations involve a mental...