Laying the foundations for better acute mental healthcare

This workbook provides assistance for commissioners and providers of acute mental health service seeking to improve and develop their current services. It involves a step-by-step process of strategic analysis: defining service aims and desired outcomes; planning the acute care pathway; how well does your current service model perform?; how can you make the best use of your capital investment?; formalising your capital investment. It is intended to test assumptions that new buildings are needed to facilitate improved care and to work through options for service redesign first.