Mental Health Network forums

For more information, please see our dedicated webpage.

To express an interest in joining, email our Mental Health Network.

An independent space for ICS mental health programme directors and leads to exchange ideas, share experiences and develop solutions.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

Our national forum for ICB mental health partner members is focused on supporting members to effectively drive the mental health agenda within their allocated systems. 

The forum is a safe space built around peer-learning, with further input from guest speakers on how to understand the workings of ICBs/ICSs.

We will also support members to build strong relationships, advance parity of esteem, and keep up to date with national policies and funding opportunities.

The forum is jointly hosted by the network and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and is co-chaired by Dr Lade Smith CBE, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Ifti Majid, chair of the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.

For more information please contact mhn@nhsconfed.org.

This group is aimed at members who provide or commission services for people with a learning disability. It is a place for discussion, sharing of experience and practice, peer support and engaging with national leaders and policy makers. 

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

A space for mental health housing service providers and others interested in this area to strengthen their independent, collective voice in the national policy debate.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

Dedicated to digital health service providers and those interested in this growing field, our Digital Mental Health Forum provides a platform to engage in discussion, network with peers and share good practice. 

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

A place for discussion, sharing of experience and practice, peer support and engaging with national leaders and policy makers for representatives from mental health independent sector providers.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

This group is aimed at NHS Confederation members who work across systems or place and have a lead role in mental health, children and young people’s mental health, learning disability or autism services. It is open to anyone with a lead or commissioning role in ICSs, and anyone who provides mental health services, including those working in primary care/PCNs or provider collaboratives.  

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

A place for discussion, sharing of experience and practice, peer support and a stronger and clearer voice for mental health medical executive level leaders.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

A place for discussion, sharing of experience and practice, peer support and engaging with national leaders and policy makers for Chairs of NHS Mental Health Trusts.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

A peer support group for third sector leaders and a space for sharing good practice is shared, collectively influencing decision-makers, and building fruitful relationships with statutory sector partners. 

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.

The adoption and spread of virtual tools to provide care has been at the heart of the NHS’s response to coronavirus. But how can we build on these new service innovations and ways of working to aid recovery and improve care?

If you’re interested in or work in virtual care, join this learning set to share your views and experience.

To join, please email our Mental Health Network.