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      • Mild to moderate problems
        • How common are mild to moderate mental health problems?
        • What do service users and carers want?
        • What works
          • Promotion of emotional wellbeing
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        • How common are severe problems?
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          • Integration of physical and mental health care
          • Support for carers
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        • What information is there on cost?
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        • What is a crisis?
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What works

  • Anti-stigma campaigns
  • Early intervention
  • Medication
  • Psychosocial treatments
  • Meaningful activity
  • Employment support
  • Accommodation
  • Personalised care
  • Primary care for severe problems
  • Specialist and integrated community mental health teams
  • Rehabilitation services
  • Specialist services
  • Integration of physical and mental health care
  • Support for carers
  • Care programmes and pathways
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  • Anti-stigma campaigns
  • Early intervention
  • Medication
  • Psychosocial treatments
  • Meaningful activity
  • Employment support
  • Accommodation
  • Personalised care
  • Primary care for severe problems
  • Specialist and integrated community mental health teams
  • Rehabilitation services
  • Specialist services
  • Integration of physical and mental health care
  • Support for carers
  • Care programmes and pathways










Commissioning guidance

  • Acute care services
  • Black and Minority Ethnic communities
  • CAMHS
  • Community specialist services
  • Dementia services
  • Drug and alcohol services
  • Eating disorder services
  • Forensic mental health services
  • Learning disabilities services
  • Liaison mental health services
  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms
  • Older people’s services
  • Perinatal mental health services
  • Primary mental health services
  • Public mental health services
  • Rehabilitation services
  • Services for deaf people
  • Sustainable services
  • Values-based commissioning
  • Young people in transition

Commissioning tools

  • Commissioning Tools
  • Cases for change
  • Cost consequence tool
  • Outcome specifications
  • Needs assessment, service and financial profiling
  • Leadership and network development

Commissioning FAQs

  • Where do I start with commissioning?
  • How to engage with a range of stakeholders?
  • How do I know where needs are greatest?
  • How can I commission out-of-hours mental health care?
  • How do I manage unscheduled hospital admissions?
  • Are mental health services be more likely to be cut?
  • Is it really possible to provide effective services and save money at the same time?
  • How to commission services that help prevent severe ill health?
  • What are the most important outcomes to be achieved?
  • Who’s in charge?
  • Where can I find out more about Payment by Results?
  • How do I reduce inappropriate referrals?
  • What makes a great CCG?
  • How can I know whether our services are effective?
  • How will my performance as a commissioner be assessed?

Partners

  • Afiya Trust
  • Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
  • British Psychological Society
  • Department of Health
  • Healthcare Financial Management Association Mental Health Finance
  • Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
  • Mental Health Providers Forum
  • Mind
  • National Survivor User Network
  • New Savoy Partnership
  • NHS Confederation Mental Health Network
  • Rethink
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Royal College of Nursing
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
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