Five Year Forward View for Mental HealthThis independent report of the Mental Health Taskforce sets out a strategic approach to improving mental health outcomes across the health and care system, in partnership with the health arm’s length bodies. It prioritises prevention, access, integration, quality and a positive experience of care. Read more »
Distinctive, Valued, Personal: Why Social Care Matters – The Next Five YearsThis discussion paper, published by the Association of Adult Directors of Social Services, that outlines the developmental steps needed to be taken immediately after the General Election in order to ensure a safe, secure and personalised care and health system for older and disabled people. Read more »
Future in mind – promoting, protecting and improving our children and young people’s mental health and wellbeingThis document published by the Department of Health makes a number of proposals to improve mental health services for young people by 2020. Read more »
Service transformation: Lessons from mental healthThis briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores the context and factors that have enabled change to happen in mental health services in the past 30 years. It includes 10 lessons for service transformation based on these experiences. Read more »
Mental Health FoundationThe Mental Health Foundation is a leading mental health research, policy and service improvement charity, committed to helping everyone lead mentally healthier lives. Read more »
Patient suicide: the impact of service changes. A UK wide studyThis UK wide study led by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness explores evidence for how services can reduce suicide. Read more »
A Diagnostic Framework for CCGs commissioning Community Mental Health ServicesThis framework, produced by Mazars LLP, is designed to help Clinical Commissioning Groups to know whether it is commissioning effective community mental health services. Read more »
Mental health action plan 2013-2020This action plan published by the World Health Organization recognises the essential role of mental health in achieving health for all people. Read more »
Leadership for transformational change: a review published by Yorkshire Health Economics Consortium and Landmark, 2013. Read more »
A mandate between the Government and the NHS Commissioning Board has been published setting out the ambitions for the health service for the next two years. Read more »
Improving the quality of care in general practiceThis is the report of an independent inquiry commissioned by the King’s Fund into the quality of general practice in England. Read more »
Transforming the delivery of health and social careThis paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population’s needs and expectations.
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Centre for Mental HealthThe Centre for Mental Health aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without. Read more »
Leadership in context: Lessons from new leadership theory and current leadership development practiceKim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas. The author suggests that a traditional conception of leadership, in which leadership is largely equated to leaders’ competences, behaviours and values, needs at the very least to… Read more »
Followership in the NHSThis paper suggests that the current focus on leadership underestimates the role of followers in securing a successful health service and overestimates the ability of individual ‘heroic’ leaders to make a significant difference to all circumstances. Read more »
The roles of leaders in high-performing health care systemsThis paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as ‘high-performing’, using cross-case methods to identify the key factors linked to their success, examining their leadership strategies, organisational processes and the investments they made to create and sustain improvements in care. Read more »
No health without mental healthThis strategy sets out six shared objectives to improve the mental health and well-being of the nation, and to improve outcomes for people with mental health problems through high quality services. Read more »
As the government’s healthcare reforms begin to take shape, the authour of this article stresses the importance of good leadership skills in improving productivity, quality and efficiency. Read more »
What’s leadership got to do with it?This report explores what difference leadership development makes, and how it can have impact on service and quality improvement. Read more »
Social movements literature points towards six groups of factors which, to varying degrees, answer these three core questions as to why people are ‘moved’ or mobilised into collective action and how such mobilisation is spread and sustained. Who are the activists in the NHS? Does the NHS improvement movement have available ‘mobilising’ structures of sufficient strength to get the movement off the ground? Read more »