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Vocational services for people with severe mental health problems: Commissioning guidance

Document type:

Guidance
Author:

National Social Inclusion Programme, National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE), Care Services Improvement Partership (CSIP)
Published date:

1 February 2006
Primary audience:

Professionals,Chief Executives,Communication Leads,Directors
Product number:

272189
Gateway reference:

5659
Pages:

42
Copyright holder:

Crown

This guidance provides commissioners of mental health services with a framework to commission evidence-based vocational services for people with severe mental health problems and provide the tools to monitor the effectiveness of such services.

Download commissioning guidance: Vocational services for people with severe mental health problems (PDF, 367K)

This is good practice guidance and progresses the implementation of the developmental standards as set out in 'National Standards, Local Action', published by the Department of Health in 2004.

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