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Direct payments for people with mental health problems: A guide to action
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Document type:Guidance
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Author:National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE)
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Published date:1 February 2006
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Primary audience:Professionals,Chief Executives,Communication Leads,Directors
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Product number:272191
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Gateway reference:5275
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Pages:28
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Copyright holder:Crown
This guide sets out good practice in relation to making direct payments more accessible to people with mental health problems. It is intended to support the efforts that all local authorities, primary care trusts, mental health trusts and non-statutory providers of mental health services and support will wish to make to ensure that direct payments become a standard option within mental health services.
This guide is specifically about the payments that are made to individuals who have been assessed as needing social care services in order that they can make their own arrangements to meet their needs.
The number of people receiving direct payments is currently a key performance assessment framework indicator (AO/C51) for local authorities.
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