Key facts and trends in mental healthThis factsheet produced by the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network presents the key figures and statistics in mental health, and an overview of the major trends and challenges facing mental health services. Read more »
Integrated care value case toolkitThis toolkit, published by the Local Government Association, aims to enable Health and Wellbeing Boards and local partners to understand the evidence and impact that different integrated care models have for service users. Read more »
Housing and mental healthThis briefing, published by the NHS Confederation, explores how mental health providers and housing associations can work together to improve the quality and reduce the costs of housing for people with mental health problems. Read more »
Smoking and mental healthPeople with mental illness are more likely to smoke heavily than the general population. This briefing published by the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network provides the background to smoking prevalence and the consequences for people with mental illness. Read more »
Equally accessible? Making mental health services more accessible for learning disabled or autistic peopleThis briefing published by the NHS Confederation highlights innovations to improve access to mental health services for people with learning disabilities or autism. Read more »
This short guide summarises some of the need-to-know structural and operational features of local government and presents advice from GPs, NHS managers and local councillors on the important cultural stumbling blocks that often occur when working across the NHS-local government divide. Read more »
Long-term health gains: Investing in emotional and psychological wellbeing for patients with long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptomsThis briefing paper summarises the NHS Confederation report ‘Investing in emotional and psychological wellbeing for patients with long-term conditions’ and describes how primary and secondary health services can improve patient outcomes, while reducing the overall costs of care for the NHS. Read more »
Investing in emotional and psychological wellbeing for patients with long-term conditionsThis document, published by the NHS Confederation, provides guidance on service design and productivity improvement for commissioners, clinicians and managers in primary care, secondary care and mental health. Read more »
Defining mental health services: promoting effective commissioning and supporting QIPPThis report published by the NHS Confederation suggests a range of definitions to describe what is meant by an inpatient bed to support commissioners and service providers in benchmarking and understanding patterns of performance. Read more »
Mental Health Payment by Results readiness reviewThis review undertaken by the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network provides an assessment of commissioners’ and providers’ readiness to deliver Payment by Results in mental health. Read more »
With money in mind: the benefits of liaison psychiatryThis briefing published by the NHS Confederation outlines the benefits that the Birmingham RAID liaison psychiatry service has brought in terms of cost savings and improved health and well-being for patients. Read more »
Putting our heads together: what makes senior joint posts work?This discussion paper looks at the factors that help and hinder success in a joint post and what local and national leaders can learn from this. Read more »
Reforming leadership development … againThis paper asserts that debates about improving management and leadership in the NHS are not new and continuous reform suggests that previous attempts may not have tackled the right problem. Read more »
This briefing paper is the result of a series of interviews with a cross-section of senior managers about what they think about the state of NHS leadership and management. Read more »
The challenges of leadership in the NHSThis Briefing paper is the result of a series of interviews with a cross-section of senior managers about what they think about the state of NHS leadership and management today. Read more »
Management in the NHS: the factsThis Briefing paper provides answers to some of the most common questions about managment in the NHS. Why does the NHS need managers? What do NHS managers do? Who are NHS managers? How many NHS managers are there? How much does NHS management cost? Read more »