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 »
Closing the Gap: priorities for essential change in mental healthThis 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 »
Mental health dashboardThe 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 »
NHS Mandate 2014 to 2015The NHS Mandate between the government and NHS England sets out the ambitions for the health service. Read more »
Devon Recovery Learning CommunityThe Devon Recovery Learning Community provides courses to people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, their family and friends and the professionals who support them. The courses provide learners with knowledge about the experience of mental distress and what Recovery means. They also provide learners with skills to manage a mental health problem and… Read more »
Mental Health Service interventions for rough sleepersThe report is extremely practical and is relevant to everyone who works with clients or patients on the streets. 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 »
Recovery Strategy: Supporting People to Live WellThis strategy sets out the principles of recovery and how Devon Partnership NHS Trust plans to further embed these principles in its work. Read more »
This project aims to support South West CCGs to improve access to talking therapies. Read more »
Social Media in Mental Health PracticeThis eBook offers insights into how health and social care practitioners working in mental health services are using social media and online networking tools for recovery and living well. Read more »
Service users’ experiences of recovery under the 2008 Care Programme ApproachThis report, published by the Mental Health Foundation and the National Service User Network, provides the findings of a study which explored how effective service users find the Care Programme Approach in promoting recovery as they understand it. Read more »
The Abandoned Illness: A report by the Schizophrenia CommissionThis report, published by the Schizophrenia Commission, proposes priority actions to transform the lives of those affected by schizophrenia and psychosis. Read more »
The Department of Health has become the first government department to sign up to Time to Change the mental health anti-stigma programme. Read more »
Personalisation and mental healthThe video produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence introduces the work of support, time and recovery (STR) workers and shows how by giving support and time to service users they can promote recovery. Read more »
The Law Commission recently recommended expanding direct payments to residential care, and the Department of Health has chosen to explore this by supporting the development of ‘test sites’ in partnership with local authorities. Read more »
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 »
Wellness Recovery Action PlanningWellness Recovery Action Planning, known as WRAP, is a self-management and recovery system for use by people who are dealing with mental health and other kinds of health challenges. Read more »
The Developing Recovery Enhancing Environments Measure, known as DREEM, is a tool which enables people using services to assess how ‘recovery-oriented’ a service is. Read more »