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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.
How mental health practitioners can manage risk including self-harm and harm to others.
This revised reference guide gives information and advice on how the 1983 Mental Health Act operates.
Information about Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS).
Sets out the government's quality standards for mental health services.
How to support children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and mental health difficulties who are at risk of restrictive intervention.
Sets out 6 objectives to improve mental health, wellbeing and outcomes for people with mental health problems.
'You're Welcome': standards to help improve the quality of, and access to, health and wellbeing services for young people.
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.
This framework supports employers to voluntarily report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Evidence and guidance to enable healthcare professionals make improvements against wider factors that affect health and wellbeing in mental health.
Links mental health data, policy and knowledge to help planners understand needs within the local population and assess local services.
Guidance for health and social care professionals on using the ASSIST-Lite tool to identify substance use and provide appropriate intervention.
How commissioners and other health professionals can measure, understand and improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people
Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer’s relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
A framework of modifiable factors to guide promotion of good mental health in babies, children and young people.
Report of the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce.
Instructions for approving doctors and clinicians under the Mental Health Act 1983.
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