National documents
Some of the key documents and reports guiding mental health policy and practice in the UK.
- 10 High Impact Changes for Mental Health Services (PDF, 696KB), CSIP / NIMHE, 2006.
- Choosing Health: making healthy choices easier (PDF, 3.2MB), Department of Health, 2004.
- Choosing Health: executive summary (PDF, 1.3MB), Department of Health, 2004.
- Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care: an action plan for reform inside and outside services and the Government's response to the independent inquiry into the death of David Bennett (PDF, 1.3MB) , Department of Health, 2005.
- Delivering
Race Equality: a summary (PDF, 406KB), 2005.
- Department of Health mental health publications
- Developing Services for Carers and Families of People with Mental Illness (PDF, 267KB), Department of Health / Making Space, 2002.
- Help is at Hand: a resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death (PDF, 1.2 MB), Department of Health, 2006.
- Inside Outside: improving mental health services for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in England (PDF, 210 KB), Department of Health, 2003.
- Mainstreaming Gender and Women's Mental Health: implementation guidance (PDF, 420KB), Department of Health, 2003.
- Making it Happen: a guide to delivering mental health promotion ( PDF 534KB), Department of Health, 2001.
- Mental Capacity Act 2005, Department of Health, 2005.
- Mental Health Act 2007
- Mental Health Act 2007 : consultation on secondary legislation.
- Mental Health and Deafness: towards equity and access (PDF, 427KB), Department of Health, 2005.
- Mental Health and Social Exclusion (PDF 901KB), Social Exclusion Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2004.
- National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services: the mental health and psychological well-being of children and young people (PDF, 845K), Department of Health / Department for Education and Skills, 2004.
- National Service Framework for Mental Health (PDF, 413KB), Department of Health, 1999.
- National Service Framework for Older People (PDF, 521KB), Department of Health, 2001.
- National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England (PDF, 250KB), Department of Health, 2002.
- Who Cares? Information and Support for the Carers of People with Dementia (PDF, 1.3MB), Department of Health, 2007.