"Driving quality and value through mental health commissioning"
The Supporting Effective Commissioning in Mental Health programme supports the development of innovation in mental health commissioning through collaboration, information exchange and partnerships with a number of national and local agencies.
The programme is one of seven NMHDU core programmes and has been commissioned through the Department of Health to promote the development of World Class Commissioning (WCC) in mental health across the NHS and other service providers.
Use the panel on the right hand side of the pages to navigate around the programme's information, resources and downloads. Should you have a practice example or idea that you would like to share with the programme, please use the form here to submit it
Content Includes
- The Programe Policy Context
- Promoting Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention in Commissioning for Mental Health and Well Being
- Joint Commissioning
- Supporting the development of the mental health commissioning workforce
- Providing practical tools and guidance for mental health commissioners to use
- Supporting sytem reform agenda in mental health
Latest News/Coming Soon
Mental Health System Reform Workshops- London 10 June. Leeds 21 June - Read the workshop evaluation report and download pdf copies of the slides from the day
Social Inclusion - the programme has been developing plans for cross-cutting work with colleagues leading on social inclusion. Over the coming months the programme will be working to provide a commissioning perspective to work on housing, employment and education, related to the delivery of PSA16
Additional Articles
- New Commissioning for a new era, Mental Health Today, June 2009: Kieron Murphy, programme lead, describes its work to support commissioning.
- NSUN article on commissioning, see page 4 and 5 of the article
