The government has published the first cross-government suicide prevention plan. The plan has a focus on how social media and the latest technology, such as predictive analytics and artificial intelligence, can identify those at risk of suicide. Read more »
This framework published by the Department of Health sets out the outcomes and corresponding indicators that will be used to hold NHS England to account for improvements in health outcomes after April 2016. Read more »
This 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 »
Safer Care Pathways in Mental Health Project aims to make mental health care pathways safer and more reliable for service users and their families. It is one of ten projects in the national ‘Closing the Gap in Patient Safety’ programme, funded by the Health Foundation. Read more »
This project aims to implement learning from a Detroit based suicide prevention initiative, led by Dr Ed Coffey, Henry Ford Health System, into mental health practice in the East of England. Read more »
This document sets out 25 priorities for improving the planning and delivery of local mental health services and thereby improve the lives of people with mental health problems in the next 2 or 3 years. Read more »
The report provides a review of progress in improving the quality of care for vulnerable people, following abuse of residents at Winterbourne View hospital. Read more »
The mental health dashboard brings together information from a wide range of sources. It shows progress against objectives in the ‘No health without mental health strategy’ and gives a clear, concise picture of mental health outcomes. Read more »
The NHS Mandate between the government and NHS England sets out the ambitions for the health service. Read more »
Mersey Care NHS Trust is working on a series of Commissioning for Quality and Innovations (CQUINs) in mental health, including improving the quality of care for people with psychosis, a developing a new way of collaborative working with primary care and improving the transitional mental health pathway for young people. Read more »
5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is working on a series of Commissioning for Quality and Innovations (CQUINs) in mental health, including improving experience, physical health and safety. Read more »
National 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 »
This 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 »
This toolkit, published by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, supports mental health care providers to self-assess their local services and individual practice against key Inquiry recommendations. Read more »
This project aims to support South West CCGs to improve safety for patients by preventing serious and untoward incidents. Read more »
The adult safeguarding elearning resource produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) demonstrates how safeguarding issues can develop and ways of dealing with them. Read more »
The final report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry was published on Wednesday 6 February 2013. Read more »
This clinical guideline, published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), offers evidence-based advice on the longer-term treatment and management of self-harm. Read more »