Driving up quality in mental health care

Mental health care across the NHS in England is changing to improve the experiences of the people who use them. In many areas, a transformation is already under way, offering people better and earlier access as well as more personalised care, whilst building partnerships which reach beyond the NHS to create integrated and innovative approaches to mental health care and support.

Find out more through our case studies and films about how mental health care across the NHS is changing and developing to better meet people’s needs.

• 24/7 urgent mental health helplines available across the country
• New Maternal Mental Health Services supporting hundreds of expectant, new or bereaved mothers to get mental health support
• Protecting the most vulnerable mental health patients during a pandemic – Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust COVID-19 case study
• Mental health trusts work in partnership to support people affected by eating disorders
• Peer Support Workers use lived experience to support mental health service users’ recovery in the community
• Staff wellbeing is everyone’s responsibility at Islington iCope
• Minding the Gap: support through transition
• Early Intervention in Psychosis Service provides support to children and young people
• Perinatal mental health services
• Award-winning partnership transforming specialist mental health services
• Patient Forum helps improve the way mental health care is delivered by NHS services
• Patient involvement is key to improving mental health care
• Hertfordshire perinatal mental health community services
• Calderdale: integrating mental health therapy in primary care
• Setting up an integrated GP clinic in North East Hampshire
• Paying for quality and outcomes: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) case studies
• Individual Placement and Support offers route to employment for people with severe mental health conditions
• New perinatal mental health mother and baby unit transforms care for mothers and babies in the South West
• Chronic pain and low back pain pathway at Sheffield Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service
• Employment Advisors in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service at Let’s Talk-Wellbeing
• Promoting staff wellbeing at Sheffield Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service
• Islington iCope – making the most of a close working relationship with GPs
• Embedding a culture of staff wellbeing at North Yorkshire IAPT
• Back on Track IAPT service, Hammersmith and Fulham NHS
• Staff retention at Westminster Talking Therapies service
• Increasing older people’s access to IAPT services in North Yorkshire
• Managing staff wellbeing at Talking Therapies Service Brent
• Promoting wellbeing in the workforce: Yorkshire and the Humber Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Network
• Individual Placement and Support, Central and NW London NHS Foundation Trust
• South Eastern Hampshire, Fareham and Gosport CCG
• Leeds North CCG, Leeds South and East CCG, Leeds West CCG
• South Worcestershire CCG, Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, Wyre Forest CCG
• Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
• Tower Hamlets Early Intervention and Detection Services
• The Aldershot Safe Haven Cafe
• Bradford First Response – update
• Islington IAPT Service – An IAPT service with a strong focus on recovery rates
• County Durham Crisis and Liaison – one year on
• Survivors Manchester tackles stigma and silence around sexual violence against men
• Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service has measure of data challenge
• Cornwall Partnership Trust Early Intervention in Psychosis employment support scheme
• Paul Farmer, independent chair of the Mental Health Taskforce, discusses the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health in this film which includes a snapshot of some of the work going on around the country
• Safe Haven Café in Aldershot
• Crisis Home Treatment Teams at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
• 3 Dimensions of care For Diabetes at King’s College Hospital, London
• First Response in Bradford
• Talking Shop in Doncaster
• Leicester health screening
• County Durham Crisis and Liaison
• Nottinghamshire street triage scheme
• Positive Step for carers in North Somerset
• The Big Brew campaign created by Mersey Care
• Mental Health Trust eliminates acute out of area placements for two years
• Fathers-to-be in Cornwall get prepared for parenthood with DadPads
• South West Zero Suicide Collaborative
• Oxford trust delivers culture-change in care with integrated psychological medicine
• Dozens of children have smoother adoption thanks to unique Sheffield scheme
• How collaboration across mental health services in South London is making a difference to young people’s lives
• New Maternal Mental Health Services supporting hundreds of expectant, new or bereaved mothers to get mental health support