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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.
Guidance for health and social care professionals on using the ASSIST-Lite tool to identify substance use and provide appropriate intervention.
Introduction Health and social care professionals are well placed to…
The report produced by UKHSA climate scientists reviews evidence on how climate change affects mental health and the interventions that protect and improve it.
Sets out 6 objectives to improve mental health, wellbeing and outcomes for people with mental health problems.
How mental health practitioners can manage risk including self-harm and harm to others.
How to support children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and mental health difficulties who are at risk of restrictive intervention.
A framework of modifiable factors to guide promotion of good mental health in babies, children and young people.
Children and young people are at heightened risk from the mental health and wellbeing impacts of climate change but there are ways to support them.
Sets out the government's quality standards for mental health services.
Climate change is increasing pressure on health and social care services, with wide-ranging impacts on mental health, service demand, and inequalities.
Climate change is negatively impacting mental health and wellbeing. These impacts are not distributed equally.
This framework supports employers to voluntarily report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
This section looks at climate change communication, its emotional impacts and the support options.
This revised reference guide gives information and advice on how the 1983 Mental Health Act operates.
Community and educational approaches include nature-based solutions and climate literacy initiatives. They can help people build resilience and process emotions.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Guidance for NHS hospitals and independent hospitals (providing NHS-funded care) in England about how to comply with the requirements of the act.
Changes to the built and natural environment like housing upgrades, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions, can help mental wellbeing and build resilience
Concern about climate change and extreme weather events are already contributing to a number of common mental health conditions.
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