Publications

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.

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.

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.

Listening to experience: An independent inquiry into acute and crisis mental healthcare

To look at the whole question of what was happening in acute and crisis care, Mind brought together an independent set of experts and commissioned them to conduct an inquiry into the state of acute care in England and Wales. This report reflects the findings of the panel and forms the basis for Mind’s campaign on acute and crisis care.

Acute and crisis mental health services provide for people at their most unwell and vulnerable, when needs are particularly urgent.

Published by Mind, 2011

Joining in the conversation – social media and mental health services

The dramatic impact that social media has had over the last five years on how people communicate, both with individuals and with organisations, cannot be underestimated. This Briefing looks at social media innovations underway in healthcare as a whole and highlights case studies from Mental Health Network member organisations.

Published by NHS Confederation Mental Health Network, 2011

Personalisation And Dementia: A Practitioner's Guide

This guide has been written for social care practitioners working with people with dementia and their families. This includes staff working for social services departments and other organisations that provide social care.

It will also be helpful for staff working in services such as health, housing, transport, leisure, and education, working directly or indirectly with people living with dementia and their family carers.

Published by Mental Health Foundation, 2011

Peer support roles in the mental health workforce - examples of current practice

In the paper Public services inside out: putting co-production into practice, the authors refer to the changing type of relationship between the ‘passive’ people receiving public services and those delivering them.

They argue that with increasing pressure being placed on the public purse, services of the future are more likely to be provided less expensively by taking a grassroots approach enabling those people who use services to shape future service developments and delivery.

Personal health budgets: countdown to rollout

The NHS Confederation has published the third in its trilogy of reports on personal health budgets. This Briefing sets out what can be learned by putting together the views collected from all three groups, and what this means for the timetable to prepare for the roll-out of personal health budgets across the country.

It includes five tests to guide and inform future debate on personal health budgets, and invites contributions to finding the solutions. The reports have focused on the views of local leaders, clinicians, and service users and carers respectively

The Mental Health Recovery Star: User Guide

The Recovery Star User Guide is an introduction to the Recovery Star for service users and workers, including a description of the Ladder of Change which underpins the tool. It complements the Recovery Star Organisational Guide and should be read in conjunction with it (you can also find additional Recovery Star support through our Recovery Star Online IT System).

It also includes:

The Mental Health Recovery Star: Organisational Guide

The Recovery Star Organisational Guide complements the Recovery Star User Guide and should be read in conjunction with it (you can also find additional Recovery Star support through our Recovery Star Online IT System).

The first section provides guidance to keyworkers on how to use the Recovery Star with service users. The second provides guidance to service managers and senior managers implementing the Recovery Star within a project, a group of projects, or the whole organisation