The Commissioning Friend for Mental Health Services
‘The Commissioning Friend for Mental Health Services’ is designed to support primary care trusts and local authorities and assist them in developing their mental health commissioning practice.
Presentations from PD Congress
Over 250 people came together at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, today to celebrate developments in the personality disorder field at the 1st National Personality Disorder Congress. Download presentations from day one.
Commissioning guidance leaflet
We have produced a new leaflet advertising our recent publication, Recognising complexity: Commissioning guidance for personality disorder services.
The 1st National Personality Disorder Congress
The First National PD Congress will be held on Thursday 19 – Friday 20 November 2009 at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. The Congress will bring together service users, clinicians, commissioners, policy makers and managers from community and forensic services and networks for two days of educational, thought-provoking, artistic and inspirational activity.
Download presentations from the regional workshops
Visitors can access all of the presentations from the regional workshops to launch new commissioning guidance.
New discussion forum supports regional workshops launching new commissioning guidance
Join our discussion forum and continue the conversations from the regional workshops to launch new commissioning guidance.
Recognising complexity: Commissioning guidance for personality disorder services
This guidance will support commissioners, providers of services and practitioners to improve services and outcomes for people with personality disorder.
Personality Disorder – Everybody’s Business: together changing our approach
A series of regional workshops to launch new guidance and a practical approach to implementation in relation to Personality Disorder.
Mental health bulletin with data from the Mental Health Minimum Data Set annual returns
The report provides analyses at national level of all England data and covers the years 2003-2004 to 2007-2008.
Beyond Local Services: Commissioning and Providing Services for People with Complex and Severe PD
The findings of this report will support commissioners to identify the appropriate provision of a range of Tier 4 services for complex and severe personality disorders and put in place implementation plans for future service provision.