UCLAN are looking to recruit 6-8 people who have used mental health services to become researchers on a Department of Health funded research project to review the quality of independent mental health advocate services across England.

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Drinkwise North West and National Mental Health Development Unit wish to commission a brief pilot project to examine the needs of people with a dual diagnosis across the North West, to ensure that future services are structured to meet the needs of this group.

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mental health strategy article which appeared in Community Care online on 2 September 2010

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If you have personal experience of mental distress, learning disability and/or dual diagnosis (drug or alcohol misuse), and have experience of the criminal justice system within a custody, court, prison or post- release setting or provide friends/family carer support to somebody who has, then this may be for you....

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Can you put recovery at the heart of your services? Having developed a framework by which organisations might become more recovery-orientated, Centre for Mental Health, in partnership with NMHDU and the NHS Confederation, is now looking for demonstration sites to help put it into practice. The project We aim...

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The guide emphasises the need for better local strategic involvement of carers and families in the care planning and treatment of people with mental ill-health and recommends better partnership working between service users and their carers, and organisations.

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Implementing Recovery – Organisational Change (ImROC) uses the methodology developed by the Centre for Mental Health (formally the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health) summarised in ‘Implementing Recovery: A methodology for organisational change’ (Shepherd, Boardman and Burns, 2010). This is based on structured self-assessment, goal setting, implementation and review, and takes a ‘whole system’ approach. The project aims to assist 6 demonstration sites improve the quality of their local services to support people more effectively to lead meaningful and productive lives (‘Recovery’). This project provides an opportunity to demonstrate an innovative approach to quality improvement and cultural change across organisations.

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We have published 7 short documents outlining key facts and figures on Mental Health Download the individual factfiles by clicking on the links below or download a zip file containing all 7 documents by clicking here          Download Factfile 1 Download Factfile 2 Download Factfile 3  ...

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This project aims to explore the concept of recovery from the perspectives of African, African-Caribbean and South Asian women using in-depth interviews that will focus on positive stories of recovery from mental distress.  Through these interviews, we hope to explore the language that women from these communities use to...

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The Guardian's Public Services Awards 2010 now invite entries. The awards, which are now in their seventh year, ­comprise 12 team awards divided into two categories: service delivery, and innovation and progress. They aim to recognise public servants working in areas ranging from children and young people to older...

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