Mental Health Services

Mental health services that are available in the community or in hospital are stil important to our work.

Leadership and performance of Crisis Resolution Teams

This is a national project that aims to understand what combinations of leadership factors are associated with the effective development and delivery of Crisis Resolution Teams.

We will also look at quality of leadership, team effectiveness, team morale and fidelity to the service model.

This 3-year project is funded by the National Collaborating Centre for Service, Delivery and Organisation. A report will be available to download soon.

We are doing this research with Prof Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and Dr John Alban-Metcalfe - Real World Group. For more information contact Chiara Samele or John Alban-Metcalfe on mailto:john.albanmetcalfe@realworld-group.com.

Smoking cessation for people who use mental health services

We are collaborating with QUIT, the national stop smoking charity, on a project that aims to provide proactive and tailor-made counselling for smokers with mental health problems to help them reduce the amount they smoke or stop smoking altogether.

The project is funded by Cancer Research UK and commenced in spring 2007.

Health care professionals and other relevant community based personnel have received training to offer stop smoking interventions and appropriate referrals for smokers with mental health problems. Existing QUIT telephone counsellors have received training in mental health awareness. They offer help in parallel to local interventions via a specialist telephone or email support service. Visit the QUIT website (www.quit.org.uk) and click on 'Health Professionals' to see more detailed information about the project.

For more information, contact Linda Seymour, Head of Policy.

The Future Regulation of Health and Social Care

We responded to the Department of Health's consultation on the Future Regulation of Health and Social Care in England (February 2007). It included proposals to merge the three organisations responsible for regulating healthcare, adult social care and the operation of the Mental Health Act.

Download our response to the Regulation consultation (Word, 37 KB)

Review of the Care Programme Approach

We responded to the Department of Health's consultation on the Care Programme Approach (February 2007). For a summary of what was included in our response, see the news item.

Download our response to the CPA consultation (Word, 143 KB)

Choice in Mental Health

We responded to a consultation on choice in healthcare in October 2006.

Download our response to DH Choice consultation (Word, 76 KB)