The first review into how councils and primary care trusts commission services for people with a learning disability has called for better planning to ensure care is accessible, personalised and allows service users to lead as full and independent lives as possible.
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A new agency – the National Mental Health Development Unit – will succeed the current National Institute for Mental Health in England as of April 1, it has been announced.
The change follows a review of mental health service delivery, which incorporated findings from Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review. From April, the ten strategic health authorities will oversee much of the regional and local delivery of new mental health policies, with support from the new development unit.
By Chris Leslie and Nick Hope.
The Government’s Regional Ministers should be given new powers and status according to a report from the New Local Government Network. It calls for Regional Ministers to be appointed full time Ministers of State. Currently Regional Ministers have no official support for their role and have to combine it with their other ministerial duties.
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