Useful Resources

The Mental Health Recovery Star: its development and use in practice

A key feature of mental health recovery is that it emphasises the uniqueness of every person’s experience of mental health problems. There is therefore probably nothing more important than supporting an individual in their journey to recovery. The Recovery Star is an innovative tool developed with a holistic and personalised approach to outcomes measurement to ensure the effective support of people throughout their recovery. This paper explains the development of the Recovery Star and its use in practice.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGB&T) Communities: A summary for Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The paper looks at the development of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments in the context of delivering services that are sensitive to the needs of of Lesbian, Gay , Bisexual and Trans (LGB&T) communities. It also outlines solutions which can be considered as part of the JSNA and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy process.

Getting it together for mental health care: Payment by Results, personalisation and whole system working

The paper considers how the two policy initiatives of Payment by Results (PbR) and personalisation need to be developed in tandem with one another, and in the context of whole system commissioning, if the aims of both are to be achieved.

It raises some questions for discussion about whether personalisation and PbR can meet the challenge of a more radical whole system approach and what impact success or failure will have on mental health services and outcomes for individuals. It concludes with some specific issues that need to be considered nationally and locally.

Recovery Star: validating user recovery

The study, a joint work by Mental Health Providers Forum and St Andrew’s Healthcare aimed to explore the psychometric properties of Recovery Star to inform training and further development.

Specific objectives were to ascertain whether items on the tool measured a single underlying construct relating to recovery (internal consistency); to identify the nature of any underlying factors (factor validity); to identify any item redundancy; and to identify whether Recovery Star detects reported change over time (responsiveness).

Developing an outcomes-based approach in mental health

This briefing sets out the policy context for outcomes in mental health and summarises the recommendations made in the report: ‘No health without mental health: developing an outcomes based approach’ - including teh need to develop an implementation framework in support of the strategy, No health without mental health.

The Mental Health Strategy, system reforms and spending pressures: what do we know so far?

This paper examines how delivery of the mental health strategy ‘No health without mental health: a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages’is being influenced by pressures on public spending and the emerging reforms in health local government and other public services.

Published by Centre for Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, January 2012

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and joint health and wellbeing strategies explained - Commissioning for populations

The purpose of this document* is to support emerging health and wellbeing boards as they engage with the refresh of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and develop their preparatory joint health and wellbeing strategy.

Better Mental Health in a Bigger Society?

Big Society is a new idea in government but, in many local areas, the NHS and local authorities are already supporting services and projects that use a Big Society approach to support people with mental health difficulties. The report explores and identifies the overlaps between Big Society ideas and changes that many people with mental health difficulties have long argued for.

National Audit of Psychological Therapies for Anxiety and Depression - National Report 2011

The National Audit of Psychological Therapies for Anxiety and Depression (NAPT) has provided a unique opportunity to begin to understand the range and quality of services and the experience of those who receive therapy. This report is of the audit findings. It incorporates data from across Wales and England, derived from a spectrum of services, including those in primary and secondary care, small and large services, IAPT and non‐ IAPT services.

Published by The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2011

The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13

The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13 sets out the planning, performance and financial requirements for all NHS organisations in 2012/13. The publication is a key guide to what PCTs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, as well as NHS Trusts, will have to focus on during the next financial year.

Get a quick overview of the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13 in relation to mental health

Published by the Department of Health, 2011