Working in partnership to provide national guidance
Rethink Mental Illness is a partner in the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCP-MH) - a new collaboration between leading organisations with an interest in mental health.
The JCP-MH exists to provide current and future commissioners with knowledge, practical guidance tools, evidence, and insight.
The JCP-MH is strongly supported by the Royal College of General Practitioners, and works with the RCGP Centre for Commissioning. Other partners include the Royal College of Psychiatrists, National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU), Mind, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care (ADASS), the Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation and the National Survivor User Network.
To help achieve better outcomes, the JCP-MH will:
- publish briefings on the key values and principles for effective mental health commissioning;
- provide practical guidance and a framework for mental health commissioning;
- support commissioners in commissioning mental health care that delivers the best possible outcomes for health and well being;
- develop guidance for best practice commissioning in areas where disparities in outcomes exist;
- bring together patients, service users, clinicians, commissioners, managers and others to deliver the best possible commissioning for mental health and wellbeing.
