Resources: Making change happen for mental health – Masterclass presentations

Mental health continues to be in the headlines. To support the agenda for better mental health, the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham in partnership with the Centre for Mental Health and NHS Benchmarking have been running a series of masterclasses for mental health commissioners and their partners.

The focus of these masterclasses is to enable commissioners to get up to speed on the data, evidence and economic analysis for effective interventions to improve mental health outcomes. Three masterclasses have taken place in Birmingham, Manchester and in London. They are particularly timely in enabling commissioners to make the most of the additional investment and to support the Five Year Forward View for mental health.

The presentations are available at:

Birmingham (19-20 January 2016)

19 January 2016

• Perinatal Mental Health – improving patient care (Dr Carrie Ladd)
• Mental health’s time has come (Dr Geraldine Strathdee)
• Children’s mental health: Priorities for investment (Michael Parsonage)
• The economic case for investing in perinatal mental health (Michael Parsonage)
• Preparing to implement mental health access and waiting time standards (Sarah Khan)
• Mental health: What the data tells us (Stephen Watkins and Zoe Page)
• Benchmarking and Analytics for CAMHS

20 January 2016

• Employment and housing: getting the key to recover (Andy Bell)
• Primary care mental health: The Sandwell approach (Dr Ian Walton)
• Enable supported employment service – National Centre of Excellence in IPS
• Physical health and mental health: The economic case for integrated care (Michael Parsonage)
• Early intervention in psychosis (Michael Parsonage)
• Crisis and acute care (Stephen Watkins and Zoe Page)
• Data from the national EIP audit (Zoe Page)
• Primary care mental health: What the data tells us (Zoe Page)

Manchester (11-12 May 2016)

11 May 2016

• The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (Andy Bell)
• Children’s Mental Health:  Priorities for investment (Michael Parsonage)
• The economic case for investing in perinatal mental health (Michael Parsonage)
• Mental Health – what the data tells us (Stephen Watkins and Zoe Page)
• Benchmarking and Analytics for CAMHS (Stephen Watkins)
• Primary Care Mental Health: What the data tells us (Zoe Page)

12 May 2016

• Employment and housing:  getting the keys to recovery (Andy Bell)
• Individual Placement and Support Employment Service (David Harper)
• Devolution in Greater Manchester – the role of innovation and economics in delivery (Mike Burrows)
• Early intervention in psychosis (Michael Parsonage)

London (13-14 May 2016)

13 May 2016

• Benchmarking and analytics for CAMHS (Stephen Watkins)
• Early intervention in psychosis (Michael Parsonage)
• Children’s mental health (Michael Parsonage)
• Early Intervention Achieving better access (Paul French)
• The Five Year Forward view for mental health (Sarah Khan)
• Mental Health: What the data tells us (Stephen Watkins and Zoe Page)
• Mental Health in London (Dr Tamara Djuretic)
• Data from the national EIP audit (Zoe Page)

14 May 2016

• Employment and housing: Getting the keys to recovery (Andy Bell)
• NELFT Integrated Adult Care Pathway  – acute and crisis care (Asif Bachlani and Wellington Makala
• Perinatal mental health – improving patient care (Dr Carrie Ladd)
• The economic case for investing in perinatal mental health (Michael Parsonage)
• Physical health and mental health: The economic case for integrated care (Michael Parsonage)
• A quilt without holes: Our journey towards a complete primary care mental health service (Dr Rhiannon England and Dan Burningham)
• CNWL Employment Services (Rash Patel)