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Beacon UK was a private provider of mental health services launched in the UK in September 2011 by Dr Emma Stanton, a practising NHS psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. [1]

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Stanton was involved with Beacon Health Strategies, now Beacon Health Options a behavioral health company based in Boston, Massachusetts established in 1996 by Elizabeth Pattullo developing publicly funded mental health managed care programs. The company does not directly deliver mental health care, but attempts to act as an “integrator”, coordinating mental health services from different health and social care providers to ensure care effectively meets the needs of each person with mental health conditions. [2]

Stanton was named as one of the Health Service Journal's most inspirational women in health and one of their Top Innovators. She is a former adviser to Sir Liam Donaldson and co-founded Diagnosis, a clinical leadership social enterprise. From 2010 to 2011, she had a Harkness Fellowship. [3] She is an advocate of outcome measurement in healthcare. [4] She is quoted by the NHS Confederation as saying: “Measuring care and outcomes in mental health is often put in the ‘too difficult’ box yet capturing data on whether people have homes to live in, jobs to go to, appropriate medication, financial stability and social interactions are possible for other conditions so why not for people with mental health problems too.” [5] Beacon recommends treatment at home through teams of doctors, nurses and social workers, not through hospital admission. [6]

Beacon analysed data supplied by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies providers in 2012. [7]

Beacon UK was part of the Forward Thinking Birmingham consortium which has been selected to deliver mental health services across the city of Birmingham from October 2015. [8] The contract agreed with Birmingham South Central Clinical Commissioning Group requires the consortium to deliver services for children, adolescents and adults under 25 over five years. [9] Community mental health services for children and young people aged 0–25 were criticised by the Care Quality Commission in its report on children's services in the city in 2017. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Five minutes with ... Emma Stanton, chief executive of Beacon UK". Guardian. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "A beacon of hope for coordinated care". Health Service Journal. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Emma Stanton". Nursing Times. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Why outcomes measurement is the key to fixing healthcare". Reform. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Dunbar-Rees, Rupert. "It's time to take outcomes-based commissioning out of the 'too difficult' box, says Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees". NHS Confederation. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Body and soul". The Economist. 23 August 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Have we improved access to mental health services?". Health Service Journal. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "'Unique' consortium wins Birmingham mental health contract". Health Service Journal. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Private sector-NHS partnership picked for £124m mental health contract". Healthinvestor. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Birmingham first children's trust to be rated 'outstanding'". Nursing Times. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
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