our aim is to improve the system for patients and staff by:
- raising the profile of mental health and the service providers agenda.
- using our memberships experience, skills and knowlegde to influence, shape and challenge policy and inform system reform.
- help our members make sense of and implement exisitng policy
- sharing best practice
- influcencing the public debate on mental health by providing a balanced view to the media and key influencers
- influence mental health legislation, regulation and policy
- ensure that system reform works for mental health services.
We do this in a number of ways, for example through meeting with policy and decision makers to put forward the views of our members and ensure that they are counted.
We also work in partnership with a range of organisations to publish recommendations on the future of mental health services, as well as on specific issues that effect our members.
Our priorities for 2010-2011 are as follows:
- Improving our relationships with members
- Developing a relationship with an incoming government
- Implementing New Horizons
- Influencing the Current System reform agenda
- Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention
- Implementing the Bradley Review
- Mental health commissioning
- Regulation
- Contract with National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU)
For more details visit Working for our members.