Mental Health

The NDTi has played an important role over the last ten years in policy and practice development around this issue – particularly in Scotland and England.

This has led to a range of work programmes described in other parts of this website. The mental health dimension of these has particularly included:

• A central interest in the personalisation agenda including working with the DH to develop good practice guidance on personalisation and mental health and an NDTi workstrand on developing person centred approaches in the mental health field.
• Our Personalisation work has included writing Paths to Personalisation on behalf of the Department of Health and the National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU). This whole system guide has been produced to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for people with mental health needs. Please see the link below for a copy of the guide. For more information, please see the NMHDU website.
• Social inclusion training – delivered to many provider organisations in the public and voluntary sector. Click here to read more.
• A particular interest in employment and a range of approaches to promoting paid work including linked to the PSA 16 indiciator on employment and social inclusion
• A new initiative on how guidance and practice around staff professional boundaries might impact upon peoples social inclusion. Click here to read more.
• A new initiative on user involvement in recruitment, aiming to promote good practice to increase participation in staff selection. Click here to read more.
• A growing understanding of the complex ways in which staff run groups and services can make the transition to becoming self-run. For more information, see Useful Links and contact Peter Bates on the Staff Team.