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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.
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.
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.
Report of the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce.
Instructions for approving doctors and clinicians under the Mental Health Act 1983.
Resource for mental health nurses to provide tailored physical healthcare for people with mental health problems.
Document to support the implementation of changes made to the police powers and places of safety provisions in the Mental Health Act 1983.
A companion document to No health without mental health: a cross-Government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages.
A guide to relational security for people who work in secure mental health settings.
Information for NHS patients and service users.
Resources to improve, develop and sustain social work across the mental health sector.
Guidance on issues associated with maternal mental health and wellbeing, from pregnancy through the early months after the birth.
List of local areas to receive funding to improve health based places of safety as part of the Crisis Care Concordat programme.
Guidance on Payment by Results (PbR) for mental health over 2013 to 2014.
Directions from the Secretary of State for Health to NHS England on how to carry out high security psychiatric services.
Advice on new or improved ways the police can deal with people with mental health problems, learning disabilities or drug misuse issues.
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