This guide is about the commissioning of primary care mental health services for deaf people. It has been written by a group with expertise and experience in the mental health of deaf people, including deaf and hearing professionals and academic researchers, in consultation with deaf patients and carers. Read more »
This guide is about the commissioning of comprehensive MUS services across the healthcare system. In developing this guide, we recognise that ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ is an unsatisfactory term for a complex range of conditions. Read more »
This guide is about the commissioning of good quality mental health interventions and services for people with complex and longer term problems to support them in their recovery. It has been updated in November 2016. Read more »
This guide supports commissioners, local health authorities and providers to think broadly, but practically, about building sustainable, resilient communities that have the potential, over time, to reduce mental ill health. Read more »
This guide describes what ‘good’ mental health services for people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities look like. Read more »
This guide is about the commissioning of public mental health interventions to reduce the burden of mental disorder, enhance mental wellbeing, and support the delivery of a broad range of outcomes relating to health, education and employment. The second version of the guide (July 2013) includes new sources of data and information. Read more »
This guide is about Values-based Commissioning in Mental Health (VbC-MH), an approach where the commissioning process rests on three equal pillars: patient and carer perspective or values, clinical expertise and systematic knowledge. Read more »
This guide is about commissioning child and adolescent mental health services. It explains the purpose, characteristics and components of good quality services that are therapeutic, safe and support recovery. Read more »
This guide is about commissioning comprehensive mental health services for people with eating disorders that are therapeutic and promote independence and recovery.
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This guide is about commissioning services for people with acute mental health needs. It explains the purpose, characteristics and components of acute care so that commissioners can commission good quality services that are therapeutic, safe and support recovery. Read more »