Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
To support the implementation of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan deliverables for CYP MH services, NHS England and NHS Improvement provide guidance documents, tools and other information for commissioners and providers. These are set out below alongside additional resources from external organisations which are useful for supporting the delivery of accessible, evidence-based, outcome-focused services in collaboration with children, young people and families.
Guidance
- #GettingThrough the first few days: Staff guidance and patient booklet
- Future in Mind
- Transformation Plan Guidance
- Children and Young People’s Eating Disorder Access and Waiting Time Commissioning Guide
- Workforce calculator for eating disorder services created by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH)
Tools
Data flow and support
- NHS Digital guidance – to improve the quality and completeness of urgent and emergency mental health data submitted to the MHSDS
- NHS Digital guidance – How to Submit to MHSDS
- MHSDS data flow guidance – applicable to all service providers including the third and/or independent sector
- NHS Data Model and Dictionary
- National Clinical Content Repository (NCCR)
- SNOMED CT
Other resources
- iThrive community of practice website
- The Joint Commissioning Panel (JCPMH)
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Choice and Partnership Approach CAPA
- Centre for Mental Health
- Reckless to mindful
- YoungMinds Amplified Resources
- Youth Access
- Healthy London Partnership resources
- The Evidence Based Practice Unit at the Anna Freud Centre
- Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC)
- York and Humber Clinical network resources on transition
- Clinical Network pages for CYP MHS
Further resources are available to Children and Young People’s Mental Health commissioners through the CYPMH Commissioner Support Programme, with additional resources also available for mental health support teams (MHSTs). If you are a commissioner and would like to access those resources or are associated with an MHST and need that additional information and support, please contact england.cyp-mentalhealth@nhs.net.