Personality disorder programme No longer a diagnosis of exclusion

Published jointly by Commissioning Support for London and the National Mental Health Development Unit, the guide, which covers mental health services across England, will act as a useful reference tool and up to date “friend” on key issues to support commissioners to carry out their day to day work.

• Download the Commissioning Friend for Mental Health Services (PDF)

The guide explores:

• key challenges for mental health commissioners
• understanding the policy and legislative framework
• personalisation – giving people more choice over services and decision making control to individual service users
• the commissioning context
• co-production, partnership and integration
• effective mental health commissioning
• measuring effectiveness