Crisis cafés: so much more than a cuppa

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Nicola Clibbens and Daisy Mbwanda write about Crisis Cafés – a novel form of community-based crisis alternative, and a recent small-scale interview study, which provides the first evidence on their UK implementation.

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A care home innovation programme to reduce hospital admissions through COVID-19 lens

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Liz Sampson reviews a recent 4-year evaluation of the Care Home Innovation Programme (CHIP) aiming to reduce hospital admissions in older care home residents.

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Whose Safety is it Anyway? Service user and carer involvement in mental health care safety #MHNR2018

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Alison Faulkner takes a recent study as the starting point for an exploration of mental health care safety, service user and carer involvement, raising concerns, risk, harm, power, relationships and much more.

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