They are keen to get your views to help us develop the strategy on:

1. Where does the Care Quality Commission need to focus its efforts in the next three to five years to really make a difference in mental health?

In particular, it would be helpful to have your views on:
• What are the priority areas for improvement in mental health?
• How can CQC best make an impact in relation to these areas? What should we do?
• When should CQC tackle these issues?
• What would success look like?

2. How should we involve people who use services and their families and carers in developing, implementing and monitoring the strategy?

In particular, it would be helpful to have your views on:
• How should we feature this in the mental health strategy?
• What approaches should we use to make sure involvement is effective throughout this process?

To ensure that we can take account of your views, the deadline for submissions has been extended to: Monday 7th September 2009. You can give us your views by:
• By email: mentalhealthstrategy@cqc.org.uk
• By post (no stamp required) by sending your response to: Nicola Vick, Mental Health Strategy Team, Care Quality Commission, 13th Floor, Finsbury Tower, 103-105 Bunhill Row, LON 15399 FREEPOST, London, EC1B 1QW
• By phone: call Jay Harman, Policy Manager, Care Quality Commission, on 01159 ... (an answerphone will be available from 5pm to 9am Monday to Friday and over the weekends).

The remainder of this paper gives further background information on:
• The work of the Care Quality Commission
• Our work with others
• Our vision for high quality care
• Our work on developing our general strategy and the strategy for our work on mental health.