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- Action on stigma: promoting mental health, ending discrimination at work
- An audit pack for monitoring the care programme approach
- Best practice guidance: specification for adult medium-secure services
- Best practice in managing risk: principles and guidance for best practice in the assessment and management of risk to self and others in mental health services
- Breaking down barriers - the clinical case for change
- Making the Care Programme Approach work for you
- Cannabis and your mental health
- Capabilities for inclusive practice
- Choosing Health: Supporting the physical needs of people with severe mental illness - commissioning framework
- Choosing talking therapies?
- Cognitive and behavioural therapy (CBT) for people with depression and anxiety: what skills can service users expect their therapists to have?
- Commissioning a brighter future: improving access to psychological therapies - positive practice guide
- Community Mental Health Teams - Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide
- Community treatment orders: international experiences
- Competences required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders
- Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) implementation guidance
- Contact: a directory for mental health 2005
- Creating capable teams approach (CCTA): Best practice guidance to support the implementation of New Ways of Working (NWW) and New Roles
D - F
- Developing services for carers and families of people with mental illness
- Direct payments for people with mental health problems: A guide to action
- Effective care co-ordination in mental health services: modernising the care programme approach - A policy booklet
- Download Establishing the Mental Health Research Network - NIMHE information note October 2002 (PDF, 34K)
- European Commission Green Paper - Improving the mental health of the population: towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union - Response of the UK government
- Fast-forwarding primary care mental health
- Fast-forwarding primary care mental health: Gateway workers
- Fast-forwarding primary care mental health: Graduate primary care mental health workers - best practice guidance
- Fidelity and best practice for crisis services - guidance statement
- From segregation to inclusion: Commissioning guidance on day services for people with mental health problems
- From values to action: The Chief Nursing Officer's review of mental health nursing
- From values to action: The Chief Nursing Officer's review of mental health nursing - self-assessment toolkit
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- Government response to the report of the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill 2004
- Government response to the Health Select Committee's report into mental health services
- Government response to the European Commission Green Paper - Improving the mental health of the population: towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union
- Help is at hand: a resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death
- High security psychiatric services: new arrangements for performance management and commissioning
- Improving access to psychological therapies - positive practice guide
- Improving access to psychological therapies: specification for the commissioner-led pathfinder programme
- Improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programme: Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) implementation guidance
- Improving Mental Health Services for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in England
- Independent specialist advocacy in England and Wales recommendations for good practice
- Download presentation on independent specialist mental health advocacy services (PDF, 100K)
- Investment: The 2005/06 national survey of investment in mental health services
- The journey to recovery: the Government's vision for mental health care
- Independent investigation of adverse events in mental health services
- International experiences of using community treatment orders
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- Making it happen: a guide to delivering mental health promotion
- Mapping exercise: mental health services
- Medicines management: Everybody's business
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: Consultation on draft research regulations - Government response
- Mental Health Act: Code of Practice
- Mental Health Act 2007: report on the consultation exercises on the draft revised Code of Practice and secondary legislation
- Mental health and ill health in doctors
- Mental Health Bill and related documents
- Mental Health and Deafness - Towards Equity and Access : Best Practice Guidance
- Mental Health NSF (and the NHS Plan): Workforce planning, education and training - underpinning programme: adult mental health services - Final report by the Workforce Action Team, August 2001
- The Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide
- Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide - Community Development: Workers for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
- Mental health policy implementation guide: Adult acute inpatient care provision
- Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide - Community Mental Health Teams
- Mental health policy implementation guide: Dual diagnosis good practice guide
- Mental health policy implementation guide: a learning and development toolkit for the whole of the mental health workforce across both health and social care
- Mental health policy implementation guide: National minimum standards for general adult services in Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) and Low Secure Environments
- Mental health policy implementation guide: Support, Time and Recovery (STR) workers
- Download Mental Health Promotion Update newsletter: Issue 2 - December 2002 (PDF, 427K)
- Download Mental Health Promotion Update newsletter: Issue 1 - November 2002 (PDF, 287K)
- Download Mental Health Promotion Update newsletter: Issue 4 - April 2002 (PDF, 308K)
- Download Mental Health Promotion Update newsletter: Issue 3 - February 2002 (PDF, 260K)
- Mental Health Review Tribunal report: April 1999 to March 2001
- Mental health services workforce design and development best practice guidance
- Mental health supplementary credit approval (MHSCA) 2000-2002
- Mental Health Taskforce: an introduction
- Mental health ten years on: progress on mental health care reform
- Download Mental Health Workforce Action Team Newsletter: Issue 1 - December 2000 (PDF, 51K)
- Download Mental Health Workforce Action Team Newsletter: Issue 2 - January 2001 (PDF, 76K)
- Download Mental Health Workforce Action Team Newsletter: Issue 3 - February 2001 (PDF, 57K)
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- Download PowerPoint presentation on the National Institute for Mental Health in England (PDF, 269K)
- National mental health service mapping exercise
- National service framework for mental health: modern standards and service models
- National Survey of Investment in Mental Health Services 2006-7
- National suicide prevention strategy for England
- National suicide prevention strategy for England: Fourth annual report on progress in implementing the strategy, 2006
- New arrangements for the performance management and commissioning of high security psychiatric services
- New ways of working for everyone: developing and sustaining a capable and flexible workforce - progress report
- Organising and Delivering Psychological Therapies: July 2004
- Patient safety in mental health services
- Personality disorder: no longer a diagnosis of exclusion - policy implementation guidance for the development of services for people with personality disorder
- Personality disorder capacity plans 2005
- Policy briefing: NHS investment in mental health services (2005/06)
- Positive Steps: Supporting race equality in mental healthcare
- Download Prison review September 2003 - first half (PDF, 184K)
- Download Prison review September 2003 - second half (PDF, 274K)
- Download Prison review September 2003 - appendices (PDF, 118K)
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- Recommendations to increase the recruitment of and the overall numbers of consultant psychiatrists and to improve their retention
- Recruitment and retention of mental health nurses: Good practice guide
- Refocusing the care programme approach: Policy and positive practice guidance
- Reforming the Mental Health Act
- Review of the Mental Health Act 1983: Report of the Expert Committee
- Safety and Security in Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals: Directions
- Safety First: Five-year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
- Smoke free regulations - Letter to mental health trusts
- Suicide prevention strategy for England
- Suicide prevention strategy for England: fourth annual report on progress in implementing the strategy, 2006
- Supporting women into the mainstream: Commissioning women-only community day services
- Tackling the health and mental health effects of domestic and sexual violence and abuse
- Treatment choice in psychological therapies and counselling: Evidence based clinical practice guideline
- Vocational services for people with severe mental health problems: Commissioning guidance
- Women's mental health strategy
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