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Shows professionals how to carry out their responsibilities under the Mental Health Act 1983, and provide high quality and safe care.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
How mental health practitioners can manage risk including self-harm and harm to others.
Sets out 6 objectives to improve mental health, wellbeing and outcomes for people with mental health problems.
Guidance for NHS hospitals and independent hospitals (providing NHS-funded care) in England about how to comply with the requirements of the act.
How to support children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and mental health difficulties who are at risk of restrictive intervention.
Guidance for commissioners and health professionals to make decisions about mental health services and interventions based on data and analysis.
This revised reference guide gives information and advice on how the 1983 Mental Health Act operates.
Sets out the government's quality standards for mental health services.
Guidance for health and social care professionals on using the ASSIST-Lite tool to identify substance use and provide appropriate intervention.
'You're Welcome': standards to help improve the quality of, and access to, health and wellbeing services for young people.
Information about Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS).
A framework of modifiable factors to guide promotion of good mental health in babies, children and young people.
Links mental health data, policy and knowledge to help planners understand needs within the local population and assess local services.
Actions that local areas can take to reduce health inequalities experienced by people living with mental illness.
Report of the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce.
This framework supports employers to voluntarily report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Evidence and guidance to enable healthcare professionals make improvements against wider factors that affect health and wellbeing in mental health.
Information about support for British nationals experiencing mental health difficulties in Turkey.
Guidance on commissioning and providing better care for people with co-occurring mental health, and alcohol and drug use conditions.
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