Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat (Mental health crisis care agreement)
The foundational UK Crisis Care Concordat — a joint statement signed by over 20 national organisations setting out how public services (health, police, social care) should work together to respond to people in mental health crisis, and requiring local areas to develop their own crisis declarations and partnership action plans.
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Policy paper
Mental health crisis care agreement
A joint statement about how public services should work together to respond to people who are in mental health crisis.
From:
Department of Health and Social Care
and
Home Office
Published
18 February 2014
This was published under the
2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Applies to England
Documents
Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat - Improving outcomes for people experiencing mental health crisis
PDF
,
1.91 MB
,
54 pages
Details
The document sets out the principles and good practice that should be followed by health staff, police officers and approved mental health professionals when working together to help people in a mental health crisis.
It follows the refreshed
Mandate for NHS England,
which includes a new requirement for the NHS that “every community has plans to ensure no one in mental health crisis will be turned away from health services”.
The Concordat has been made and agreed by:
Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
Association of Chief Police Officers
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Association of Directors of Children’s Services
Association of Police and Crime Commissioners
British Transport Police
Care Quality Commission
College of Emergency Medicine
College of Policing
The College of Social Work
Department of Health
Health Education England
Home Office
Local Government Association
Mind
NHS Confederation
NHS England
Public Health England
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Third sector and charity supporters of the Concordat are:
Centre for Mental Health
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health Providers Forum
National MIND
National Survivor User Network
Rethink Mental Illness
Stonewall
Turning Point
Young Minds
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Published 18 February 2014
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