Useful Links
The NHS White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, sets out the Government's long-term vision for the future of the NHS. The vision builds on the core values and principles of the NHS - a comprehensive service, available to all, free at the point of use, based on need, not ability to pay
White paper
Quality and Productivity
NHS Evidence - mental health (formerly a Specialist Library of the National Library for Health)
Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs) present the highest-quality evidence on a topic which has been published in the previous 12-18 months
http://www.library.nhs.uk/mentalHealth/
CQUIN
The CQUIN payment framework makes a proportion of providers' income conditional on quality and innovation. Its aim is to support the vision set out in High Quality Care for All of an NHS where quality is the organising principle.
Guidance on using the CQUIN payment framework to develop CQUIN schemes is available at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_091443
Both the acute and mental health example schemes, along with other material
to support use of the CQUIN framework, can be found at:
http://www.institute.nhs.uk/world_class_commissioning/pct_portal/cquin.html
Sainsbury's Centre
Removing Barriers: The facts about mental health and employment
http://www.scmh.org.uk/pdfs/briefing40_Removing_barriers_employment_mental_health.pdf
Care Services Efficiency Delivery
CSED helps councils to identify and develop more efficient ways of delivering adult social care. The programme is focused on efficiency solutions that support the transformation of adult social care, set out in Putting People First
http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/csed/
Public mental health evidence
http://www.nmhdu.org.uk/our-work/promoting-wellbeing-and-public-mental-health/
Enabling effective delivery of health and wellbeing
This independent report offers recommendations to the Secretary of State on how better to enable the delivery of improved health and wellbeing. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_111692
System Reform
The NHS Standard Contract have been published and are now available via the following link:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_111203
Best Practice
NHS Information Centre
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/
New Mental Health Minimum Data Set MHMDS contains record level data about the care of adults and older people using secondary mental health services.
www.ic.nhs.uk/mhmds
Social Care and Mental Health Indicators from the National Indicator Set - further analysis, England 2009 http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/socmhi08-09
QOF indicators and prevalence for depression www.ic.nhs.uk/qof
NHS Institute http://www.ic.nhs.uk/commissioning
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published 2 further commissioning guides and to help the NHS in England effectively commission evidence-based care for patients
http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/nl/?ln=606_1_1
Partners and Other Organisations
Department of Health,
http://www.dh.gov.uk
CQC
http://www.cqc.org.uk/
NHS Evidence,
http://www.evidence.nhs.uk
ADASS
http://www.adass.org.uk/
SCIE
http://www.scie.org.uk/
NHS Confed
http://www.nhsconfed.org
NHS Institute
http://www.institute.nhs.uk/
Royal College of Psychiatrists
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/
Royal College of GP's
www.rcgp.org.uk
DH Care Networks
http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/
IDeA: Improvement and Development Agency for local government
http://www.idea.gov.uk