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.
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