Last Autumn, NHS England launched the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) to support mental health Trusts and providers improve experiences of care for racialised communities by embedding new practices to promote anti-racism. All mental health providers must implement the framework by March 2025 and it will become part of the CQC inspection process. […]

This report outlines the key questions that researchers can assist us in addressing within the area of mental health nursing. It’s aimed at research funders, the academic research community, and people delivering and using mental health services.

This service specification covers the provision of specialist Children and Young People’s Mental Health Medium Secure Services (MSUs) for children and young people with forensic mental health presentations, who are detained under The Mental Health Act 1983. MSUs are delivered on a national footprint and children and young people are admitted via a central referral network.

This service specification describes a community-based Forensic Child and Young People’s Mental Health Service (FCAMHS) model. The service will be delivered for a geographical area as defined by local commissioners but will generally cover one or more Integrated Care Systems, as determined by local arrangements.

More than 57,000 new and expectant mums have received specialist support for mental health problems over the last year, up a third on 2022, NHS figures show. Every part of England now has a specialist mental health team thanks to the NHS Long Term Plan with experts offering women with moderate to severe or complex […]

The following co-produced guidance sets out the culture of care everyone, including people who use services, families, carers and staff, want to experience in mental health inpatient settings, and supports providers to realise this.

The standards apply to all NHS-funded mental health inpatient service types, including those for people with a learning disability and autistic people, as well as specialised mental health inpatient services such as mother and baby units, secure services, and children and young people’s mental health inpatient services.

This guidance is for NHS-commissioned mental health provider organisations, integrated care boards (ICBs), regional NHS England offices and chief psychological professions officers in mental health trusts. It aims to support mental health providers to deliver the NHS long term plan objective to increase access to psychological therapies for people with severe mental health problems, as part of a wider transformation of adult and older adult community mental health services.

This toolkit offers advice on how providers of mental health services can effectively implement the professional nurse educator (PNE) role within their mental health services.

This framework summarises the commissioning guidance relating to mental health inpatient provision.

It aims to, provide guidance for those responsible for the commissioning of mental health inpatient services and within this, advance the system-wide requirement to ensure that services are local, inclusive and deliver safe, personalised, and therapeutic care and support systems to develop local plans for change, so that inpatient provision better fits the needs of the population, makes more effective use of the funds available, and protects and improves the lives of citizens in the locality.

More than 40,000 people with mental health problems are being supported back into employment thanks to an NHS programme, new data shows. The figures come alongside a new campaign launching today urging more people to sign up for help they might need through the NHS Talking Therapies service. As part of a pilot programme across […]