NICE Clinical Guideline CG170: management of autism in children and young peopleThis clinical guideline offers best practice advice on the care of children and young people with autism. Read more »
Work and mental healthThis website signposts you to relevant guidance and practical tools designed to help you through the maze of issues on work and mental health. Read more »
GPG1 Developing and updating local formulariesThis guidance, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), provides good practice recommendations for the systems and processes needed to ensure NHS organisations develop and update local formularies effectively and in accordance with statutory requirements. Read more »
The Esteem Team Co-ordinated care in the Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing ServiceThis case study is part of a research project undertaken by The King’s Fund and funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation in the USA to compare five successful UK-based models of care co-ordination. Read more »
Section 136 training videosThese training videos, developed by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, are intended to support improved practice for patients detained in a place of safety under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act. Read more »
Section 17 training videosThese training videos, developed by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, are intended to support improved practice for patients detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act. Read more »
Hospital Episode Statistics linkage to the Mental Health Minimum Data SetThis linked dataset, known as the HES-MHMDS, enables patients’ mental health data going back to 2006/07 to be matched to their recorded interactions with acute secondary care services. Read more »
Public mental health: An overviewIn this presentation Dr Jonathan Campion explains the role of public mental health in promoting wellbeing and improving outcomes for services and the people who use them. Read more »
Modernising Mental Health in Bristol – a case studyThis presentation by Dr David Soodeen and Christina Gray describes work to re-design Bristol’s mental health services and care pathways in collaboration with people who use services, their carers and families. Read more »
Quality and safety: using information to assure quality and achieve governanceThis presentation by Alison Moores, Director of Nursing and Practice, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, shows how accurate, high quality and timely data is driving improvements in local mental health services. Read more »
Mental Health Payment by Results – moving towards funding for mental health based on activity and outcomesThis presentation by Julie Kell, NHS North Somerset CCG, describes how Mental Health Payment by Results sits at the centre of improved mental health services. Read more »
The first 100 daysIn this video of a presentation given at Southern Health Medical Conference July 2013, Dr Geraldine Strathdee reflects on her first 100 days in post as National Clinical Director for Mental Health. Read more »