The Commissioning Friend for Mental Health Services' is designed to support primary care trusts and local authorities and assist them in developing their mental health commissioning practice.    

The guide provides an invaluable insight into:

• key challenges for mental health commissioners
• understanding the policy and legislative framework
• personalisation - giving people more choice over services and decision making control to individual service users
• the commissioning context
• co-production, partnership and integration
• effective mental health commissioning
• measuring effectiveness

Download a copy of the publication here.