NICE Quality Standard QS39: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorderThis quality standard covers the diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children aged 3 years and older, young people and adults. Read more »
What works best in mental healthTell us about what you are doing locally to design and deliver services / initiatives / groups for people with mental health problems. Read more »
National Mental Health ProjectsNHS England is collaborating with key partners and stakeholders to design and support delivery of a portfolio of projects which aim to accelerate improvement in the experience of people who have mental health problems and physical health problems. Read more »
Mental Health Intelligence NetworkPublic Health England and NHS England are working together with key partners to work to establish a National Mental Health Intelligence Network which aims to put information and intelligence into the hands of decision makers to improve mental health and wellbeing. Read more »
Public Health England drive to improve coverage of Health ChecksPublic Health England has launched a drive to improve the coverage of the NHS Health Checks scheme in order to reach its goal of providing them to 15 million patients by 2018/2019. Read more »
Winterbourne View Joint Improvement ProgrammeNational partners have committed to a programme for change to transform health and care services for people with learning disabilities or autism who have mental health conditions or behaviour that challenges. Read more »
Resources for Strategic Clinical Networks and Senates, published by NHS England. Read more »
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness Annual Report 2013This annual report, published by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, presents an update on numbers and changing trends in suicide and homicide by patients across the UK. Read more »
Response to the Confidential Inquiry into learning disabilityThis is the government response to the recommendations in the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities. Read more »
The NHS belongs to the people: a call to actionNHS England is calling on patients, the public and staff to join in a discussion about the future of the NHS, so it can plan how best to deliver services, now and in the years ahead. Read more »
Improving Access to Psychological TherapiesThe purpose of the IAPT national programme is to increase access to a range of evidence based interventions and informed treatment options for people with depression and anxiety disorders (NHS Mandate, 2012). Read more »
Mental health and parity of esteem: the long road aheadWriting in a recent blog post, Jon Rouse Director General, Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, welcomes the report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Whole-person care: from rhetoric to reality Read more »
The Solution MagazineThis online digital magazine, published by the human rights campaigns group Black Mental Health UK, aims to mainstream Mental Health issues faced by the UK’s African Caribbean communities. Read more »
Forum promoting positive practice and collaboration, influencing and supporting practitioners and people who use services, national policy and strategy, research, audit and quality improvement. Read more »
Dr Geraldine Strathdee, OBE, MRCPsychNational Clinical Director for Mental Health, NHS England, a consultant psychiatrist in Oxleas NHS FT, and Visiting Professor, Integrated mental health education programme at UCL Partners. Read more »
Refreshing the Mandate to NHS England for 2014 to 2015The Government is consulting on refreshing the Mandate to NHS England for 2014 to 2015. Read more »
Care.data GP toolkitThis toolkit, produced by NHS England, aims to help GP Practices raise patient awareness of plans to extract coded GP data as part of the care.data programme, It also explains what to do if a patient objects to the use of personal confidential data beyond their direct care. Read more »
Care Pathways and Packages ProjectThe Care Pathways and Packages Project (CPPP) is a consortium of organisations in the Yorkshire and Humber and the North East areas who are working together to develop National Currencies and Local Tariffs for Mental Health. Read more »