SCIE’s Adult safeguarding: sharing information guide aims to support implementation of the adult safeguarding aspects of the Care Act 2014.

Safe, 24/7 digital support for mental health and wellbeing issues. Clinically moderated at all times.

NHS England has launched a ground breaking initiative to improve access to psychological therapies by unveiling the first ever directory of NHS-endorsed digital mental health services.

HMIC has published a report on the welfare of vulnerable people in police custody, following a thematic inspection commissioned by the Home Secretary. HMIC was asked to look specifically at the treatment of children, people who were mentally unwell and people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

A unique program in Detroit for patients with depression has resulted in two and a half years without a single suicide from Henry Ford's patient population.

Solidarity in a Crisis provides out of hours support to people experiencing acute mental health issues.

The South West Regional Suicide Reduction Collaborative's 'Project Zero' aims to reduce suicides in the region to zero by 2018.

This new resource, from Connecting with People, has been written to support anyone in distress and feeling suicidal.

Fact sheet produced on behalf of the RCGP/RCPsych Primary Care Mental Health Forum.

This is the latest monthly (April 2014) statistical publication in relation to the linked HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) and MHMDS (Mental Health Minimum Data Set) data.

This project was a collaboration between Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust (MMHSCT) and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) to explore and address the high percentage of people who died from fire and were known to mental health services in Manchester.

What can be learnt from domestic & international tele-triage models to assist NHS 111 London in the development of best practice for mental health callers in crisis

“Since the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) introduced the recording of vulnerable adult information in April 2013, there have been in excess of 20,000 reports, which show that there has been an unmet demand for a mechanism to record information on vulnerable adults” – Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector, Mental Health Team.

Annual Report of the Centre for Mental Health and Safety, University of Manchester, July 2015.

An introduction to mental health services for finance managers.

The Commission has asked for feedback on the Interim Report by Tuesday 1 September 2015.

52 Experts by Experience with lived experience of mental health crisis have been supported to develop the local Crisis Care Concordat action plan for Sandwell.

This consultation closes on 29 May 2015.

The CORE Study is a research programme funded by the National Institute for Health Research. The purpose is to test a 39-item fidelity measure, developed by the CORE research team at UCL, which assesses how far CRT services are achieving a model of good practice.

Mind and Rethink Mental Illness want to hear what you believe are the main priority outcomes for mental health services for the next five years. They have set up the Mental Health 5 Year Forward View Survey and will be using the responses to help shape the work of NHS England’s Mental Health Taskforce.

The Mental Health Taskforce is responsible for creating and publishing a new five-year all age national strategy for mental health to 2020.

The NHS England business plan sets out how NHS England will support commissioning and drive improvements in patient outcomes.

A new Right Care casebook shows how NHS Blackpool and NHS Fylde and Wyre CCGs addressed the issue of high-intensity users to reduce the burden on unscheduled care services.

This guidance sets out the CQUIN scheme for 2015/16, to be offered by NHS commissioners to providers of healthcare services under the NHS Standard Contract.

The NHS is set to benefit from a charitable grant from the Forces in Mind Trust to fund a national review of Health Needs Assessments for veterans’ mental health and other health related needs.

The second annual report sets out what local areas can do to prevent suicide and save lives.

Updated guidance by Dr Pauline Lane, Reader in Mental Health, Department of Primary and Public Health, Anglia Ruskin University and Professor Rachel Tribe, School of Psychology, University of East London.

The latest statistics on specialist substance misuse treatment for young people in England during 2013 to 2014.

A briefing produced as part of the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme

This ‘How to’ guide is one of a series of guides designed to bring together learning from the five-year Right Here programme to support the mental wellbeing of young people aged 16–25.

Two new resources to support commissioning effective transitional mental health services for young people.

Eleventh Report of Session 2014–15

NICE is now accepting entries for the 2015 Shared Learning Awards which recognise and reward examples of how NICE guidance and standards have been put into practice.

This document describes some critical outcomes and success factors in the care, support and treatment of people who use mental health services, from their perspective.

This document sets out the national all-age suicide prevention strategy for England.

NHS England's planning guidance document published in December 2014.

The MPS is working towards ten commitments which can be used in local declarations and action plans across London.

This survey undertaken by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) considered the range and extent of technology applications within commissioned care services and sought to establish the development needs going forward.

This document sets out the process and timescales for organisations and their commissioners to submit proposals for phase 2. The closing date for proposals is Friday, 28 November 2014.

The Mental Health Strategic Clinical Network has produced a set of standards and recommendations for commissioning mental health crisis services across London.

The analysis draws information collected from providers and other key organisations, together with data collected by CQC from people who use local services and organisations that support them, to show a picture of mental health crisis care by local authority area.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Manifesto, Making parity a reality: Six asks for the next government to improve the nation’s mental health.

CQUIN stands for 'Commissioning for Quality and Innovation' in NHS commissioning. The CQUIN payment framework enables commissioners to reward excellence, by linking a proportion of English healthcare providers' income to the achievement of local quality improvement goals.

This report is intended to provoke and support clinical commissioners to champion effective primary care mental health services. The guide is written specifically for mental health commissioners and practitioners and could be a useful resource for other commissioners and providers too.

Download the BMA Board of Science's report: 'Recognising the importance of physical health in mental health and intellectual disability - Achieving parity of outcomes.'

Download and use this good practice form to tell us about what you are doing locally to design and deliver a service / group / initiative for people living with mental health problems.

The Funding prospectus for phase 2 was launched on 24th March 2015. Bids have to be submitted before noon on 30th June 2015.

Specialist housing developers and providers are being invited to bid for a share of an additional fund of up to £155 million to develop accommodation for adults who need support in order to live independently, be it due to old age or disability. This phase of the CASSH fund will prioritise applications for housing for people with learning disabilities or mental health issues.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent in (a) cash and (b) real terms on child and adolescent mental health services per young person in England in each of the last five years.

This paper is intended to provide an introduction to the ‘Improvement Model’ which is central to all change management programmes.

Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has awarded a contract for the first sanctuary in the city where people can go who are experiencing severe emotional distress.

A draft Due Regard Statement created by the Mental Health Crisis Task & Finish Group & key stakeholders in Gloucestershire.

Healthwatch England Special inquiry findings, July 2015

The Race Equality Foundation conducted a series of interviews and focus groups with black and minority ethnic people who had experience of crisis care.

Independent report on The Sanctuary in Manchester prepared by Dr Judith Gellatly from the University of Manchester.

The protocol for the Health Informatics Service run by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust.

This toolkit has been developed to support NHS commissioners to work collaboratively with patients, carers and NHS provider organisations to reduce poor experiences of in-patient care.

NHS England has published a new resource to support commissioning effective mental health services for young people.

The EHRC enquiry looked at non-natural deaths of adults with mental health conditions in detention in England and Wales, focussing on prisons, police custody and psychiatric hospitals.

The Commission's call for evidence will be open until 18 March 2015. It would like to hear from individuals and organisations with knowledge and experience of acute psychiatric care for adults in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

A toolkit for improving care.

Under the MHA 1983, the CQC has a duty to monitor how services in England exercise their duties in relation to patients who are detained in hospital or subject to community treatment orders or guardianship.

Eight pilot schemes set to lead the way in innovating change to services for children and young people with mental health issues have scooped a share of a £500k fund.

Intelligent monitoring guides CQC inspections, helping them to decide when, where and what to inspect.

The North of England Crisis Project is a service improvement initiative commissioned by the North of England Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health and Neuro-Disabilities.

Suicide Crisis is a survivor-led, user-led charity that runs the first Suicide Crisis Centre in the country.

Download this new practitioner guide offering information, advice and guidance for those working with people with personality difficulties in community settings.

Download the September 2014 HTAS newsletter.

Supporting people in crisis in A&E: Lambeth Living Well Collaborative

LSLCS is an innovative and multi award winning charity. They provide services to people in acute mental health crisis, which are alternatives to hospital admission or statutory services.

The CQC has published a report on the inspection of hospital services for children and young people.

The purpose of this tool kit is to identify the key factors which need to be taken into account when decisions about confidentiality and disclosure are made.

This is the Report for the Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group who in September 2013 commissioned an urgent stocktake of CAMHS Tier 4 inpatient services.

The Bradley Commission is an independent review set up by Centre for Mental Health examining the progress made in the five years since the publication of the Bradley Report (DH, 2009a).

Download the NHS Benchmarking Network's Mental Health Crisis Pathway Analysis.

Download the British Journal of Psychiatry's articles on alternatives to standard in-patient care in England.

National Debtline is a free, independent and confidential debt advice service run by the charity Money Advice Trust.

This research article assesses the impact of the Maxwell Centre, a health-based place of safety adjacent to a psychiatric hospital, which was opened in Gloucestershire in February 2009.

The First Response service offers support 24 hours a day, seven days a week to people of all ages living in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale or Craven experiencing a mental health crisis.

Report of the London Mental Health Partnership Board.

Details of engagement workshops in February and March to listen to stakeholder views and needs, to understand how we can open up and improve the Directory of Services.

The Urgent Care Commission recommendations for service-wide improvements.

A film which demonstrates how police, ambulance and hospital staff should work together in mental health emergencies has been launched by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the Metropolitan Police and the London Ambulance Service.

An animated video from Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust explaining the role of liaison psychiatry and how a specialist department can help in all hospitals.

This guidance, commissioned by the Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions South West, provides advice on commissioning liaison psychiatry services, specifying minimum and optimum service specifications, costs and quality outcome measures.

Operation Serenity is an innovative pilot project in Hampshire to improve the response from police and mental health services for people in mental health crisis.

Core processes and standards and template shared care letters

Excellent, integrated mental health services to improve mental and physical health, secured through collaboration and determination to do the best for the population of North West London

Download NHS England's Urgent and Emergency Care Review End of Phase 1 Report.

“The policy has brought clarity to a very complex area of service. It has dispelled a few myths and unrealistic expectations held between agencies and placed the vulnerable person at the centre of day to day responses to mental ill health” – Greater Manchester Police

The A&E mental health liaison team operates seven days a week from 8am until 10pm. It is a multidisciplinary team which includes a range of professionals who focus on people who deliberately self-harm and/or who have mental health problems within the acute care pathway.

“Our central number for police has helped reduce the waiting time for people in crisis who need urgent health interventions” – Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust.

The Department of Health is funding pilot schemes, managed by nine police forces, in partnership with local NHS organisations. Some other forces already have schemes in operation, including Leicestershire Police.

Shaping Healthier Lives is North West London’s mental health transformation strategy, 2012–15. It involves collaborative work between eight clinical commissioning groups and two mental health trusts.