Lancashire Care Library and Information Service: Recent publications of interest

The below list is provided by Lancashire Care Library and Information Service and may be of interest to you:

• Putting recovery first in secure care
  Rethink Mental Illness, July 2014
  Rethink reports on the first ever National Recovery and Outcomes Conference, which has given people in secure care the opportunity to have their say on how services can be made more recovery-focused.
  
  
• Clinical commissioning groups' 'postcode lottery' spending on mental health criticised
  Mental Health Today, 28 July 2014
  Mental Health Today report on clinical commisssioning groups' spending on mental health services varies between different areas in the country.
  
  
• Piloting of the Care Certificate in the North West
  Health Education North West, July 2014
  The Care Certificate sets out the learning outcomes, competences and standards of behaviour that all healthcare support workers are expected to be able to demonstrate within twelve weeks of commencing employment.