Physical Health Check tool
This tool published by Rethink Mental Illness is designed to improve the monitoring of physical health for people with severe mental illness. Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Guidance for commissioning public mental health services
This guide is about the commissioning of public mental health interventions to reduce the burden of mental disorder, enhance mental wellbeing, and support the delivery of a broad range of outcomes relating to health, education and employment. Read more »
How health and wellbeing boards can help children and young people
The briefing paper sets out the economic case for investing in children’s mental health and explores how Health and Wellbeing Boards can improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Read more »
Improving talking therapies for people with severe mental illnesses
Six national projects are piloting work to help improve access to psychological therapies for those with severe mental illnesses. Read more »
Winterbourne View: final report and programme of action
Winterbourne View Review – final report and programme of action Read more »
Winterbourne View review: good practice examples
Good practice examples emerging from the Winterbourne View Review, 2012 Read more »
What’s reasonable? Mental illness and disability law in your GP practice
This guide published by Rethink Mental Illness is designed to help GP surgeries make reasonable adjustments for people affected by mental illness, as outlined in the Equality Act 2010. Read more »
Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013-14
This guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) outlines the incentives and levers that will be used to improve services from April 2013. Read more »
UK drugs policy
In this video Professor John Strang from the National Addiction Centre discusses UK drugs policy with Jeremy Paxman on BBC2 Newsnight programme. Read more »
The Way Forward: Developing Operational Delivery Networks
This document published by NHS England outlines the role that Operational Delivery Networks will play in coordinating patient pathways between providers over a wide area to ensure access to specialist support from April 2013. Read more »
Schizophrenia Infographic
This infographic, published by Rethink Mental Illness, provides facts and figures about schizophrenia to raise awareness and challenge some common misperceptions. Read more »
Commissioning Outcomes Framework
This framework measures the health outcomes and quality of care (including patient reported outcome measures and patient experience) achieved by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). Read more »
Creating Change: innovation, health and wealth one year on
This report provides an update on the implementation of the NHS Chief Executive’s report ‘Innovation health and wealth, accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS, published in December 2011. Read more »
Transforming care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital
The final report following the abuse of people with a learning disability at Winterbourne View sets out a programme of action to transform services for vulnerable people. Read more »
Guidance for commissioners for perinatal mental health services
This guide is about the commissioning of good quality perinatal mental health services. Read more »
Improving care for people with schizophrenia and psychosis
In this presentation, Paul Jenkins, Rethink Mental Illness Chief Executive Officer, provides a summary of the Rethink Commission key findings and recommendations. Read more »
National Audit of Schizophrenia 1st report 2012
The aim of this audit was to examine how far ‘NICE Guideline on Core Interventions in the Treatment and Management of Schizophrenia in Adults’ is being implemented and to stimulate improvements in the care and treatment of adults in the community with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Read more »
Commissioning intelligence report and model
This report and associated model provides feedback on the results of a large-scale engagement exercise to understand the information and intelligence requirements of emerging clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Read more »
Compassion in Practice
Compassion in Practice sets out a vision to embed six values: care, compassion, courage, communication, competence and commitment, known as the Six C’s, throughout the NHS to improve care for patients. Read more »
Mental health services outcome specifications
These model outcome specifications will support commissioners in their negotiations with providers and/or other departments within Clinical Commissioning Group’s and Local Authorities. They should be used in conjunction with the other tools within the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioning Pack, to understand the evidence base and the needs of the local population. Read more »