Improving pre-admission
This section contains examples and tools on practice for enabling the implementation of change to ensure improvement prior to admission.
 | Title: Best practice guidance for primary care staff Published: September 2006 Summary: Using the Mental Health Domains in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). The guidance provided in this paper relates to the updated mental health domain, a new domain for depression and a new domain for dementia. This guidance is designed for primary care clinicians so that they can deliver high quality, evidenced based, essential services. |
 | Title: Primary care services for depression Published: September 2006 Summary: A Guide to Best Practice. Changing the way care for depression is delivered is complex. The challenge remains for primary care commissioners to engage GPs and their practices in the development of mental health care. It is hoped that this guidance document and the incentives in the Quality and Outcomes Framework are mechanisms to assist in achieving this goal. |
 | Title: Long term conditions and depression Published: September 2006 Summary: Long-Term Conditions and Depression. Considerations for Best Practice in Practice Based Commissioning. This paper will describe the best practice opportunities presented by Practice Based Commissioning (PbC) for providing and improving mental health services within the new environment for health and social care. |
 | Title: NIMHE Key skills for key staff Published: September 2006 Summary: A Competency Guide for Primary Care and Community Services. This resource will provide busy generalist staff with a framework to better support all adults experiencing mental health difficulties seen in Primary Care. It will help the reader to acknowledge their existing mental healt knowledge and skills as well as identifying how to further improve their capabilities. |
 | Title: Care workbook Published: September 2006 Summary: A Workbook on Designing Primary Care Mental Health Services. To assist those wishing to plan, organise and manage primary care mental health services, explicitly describing some of the key design features and outlining the possible choices. |
 | Title: Designing primary care MH services Published: September 2006 Summary: A Guidebook on Designing Primary Care Mental Health Services. To assist those wishing to plan, organise and manage primary care mental health services, explicitly describing some of the key design features and outlining the possible choices. |