Laying the foundations for better acute mental healthcare : a service redesign and capital investment workbook

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; and planning the acute care pathway.

It analyses how well does your current service model perform, and how can you make the best use of your capital investment?

It also covers 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.