A Future Vision for Mental Health

This report sets out a vision for good mental health across our society requiring responses from all parts of the public sector, and calls for a cabinet level champion to make good mental health ingrained into government policy. Read more here.

About Time

About Time is a step-by-step guide guide to transforming day and vocational services to support recovery from mental ill-health.  It is based on experience in two counties in England. Read the document here.

Attitudes to Mental Illness 2010

Since March 1994, the Department of Health has been surveying the attitude of the public towards mental illness. Read the 2010 national statistics on Attitudes to Mental Illness here.

Common Mental Health Problems at Work

Common Mental Health Problems at Work, prepared by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, examines recent international research on how to help people with depression and anxiety to stay in work or to return after a period of ill health. Click here to view the report.

Health and Wellbeing: The Boorman Review

This independent NHS Review sets out a clear agenda for change for the NHS, and provides a comprehensive set of recommendations for improvement in provision of health and well-being across the NHS. Access the review here. To view the business case for mental health, click here.

Health works - A review of the Scottish Government's Healthy Working Lives Strategy

Health Works (2009) outlines the Scottish Government's revised approach to encouraging healthy working lives. It sets out the reasons behind the need to change attitudes to health and work amongst employers, workers and healthcare professions, and the actions that will be necessary to achieve this. Read Health Works here.

Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People

Published in January 2005, 'Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People', sets out the UK Government's key aims and 20-year vision on how to improve equality for disabled people in Britain. Read the report here.

Mapping Effective Responses to Job Retention

Commissioned by the European Social Fund and Welsh Assembly government 'Mapping Effective Responses to Job Retention' reviews job retention programmes for people with mental health needs, and provides recommendations for their improvement. Read this July 2007 report here.

Musculoskeletal Services Framework (MSF)

The Musculoskeletal Services Framework (2006) demonstrates a new model of service to deliver better care for the estimated 10 million people in the UK with bone and joint conditions. MSF provides new guidance to help improve services for people suffering from conditions such as arthritis,back pain and fractures. View the document here.

National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease

The National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease (NSF CHD), published in March 2000, sets out a strategy to modernise CHD services over ten years. It details 12 standards for improved prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation and goals to secure fair access to high quality services. Read the Framework here.

NCSI: A Proposed Model of Vocational Rehabilitation

A review by the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI), led by the Department of Health and Macmillan Cancer Support, has identified a number of principles which are central to improving vocational rehabilitation services for people affected by cancer. A four-tiered model of vocational rehabilitation is proposed. Read more here.

New Horizons - A Shared Vision for Mental Health

New Horizons is a cross-government action programme, produced by the Department of Health and including commitments to action by 11 government departments. It sets out a new approach with the twin aims of improving people’s quality of life and well-being, and improving the quality and accessibility of services for people with poor mental health. Read more here.

Occupational Health Services: Standards for Accreditation

The Standards, the first in the UK for occupational health services, outline the minimum requirements that will apply to OH services that participate in the UK voluntary accreditation scheme, and provide OH services with a framework for quality assurance. To view the Standards, click here.

Realising ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition

This report on mental health and employment, commissioned  by the Department for Works and Pension, sets out the reviewers’ vision for change to ensure the Government can better help more people with mental health conditions who are workless into sustained employment. Read more here.

Rehabilitation Code

The Code, published by the Rehabilitation Working Party, provides an approved framework for injury claims. Its aim is to promote the use of rehabilitation and early intervention in the compensation process so that the injured person makes the best and quickest recovery. Access the full Code and the two-page summary here.

Right to Control

The UK Government ran a consultation from 11 June to 30 September 2009 on the new right to give individuals with disabilities more control over the funding they receive. To read more about the Government's response to the consultation, click here.

Transforming community services: ambition, action, achievement

The Transformational Guide focusing on rehabilitation services is  part of a Department of Health programme aimed at improving community services. The Guide helps to support NHS practitioners and clinical leaders in transforming services locally. Read more here.

Vocational Rehabilitation: what is it, who can deliver it and who pays?

In 2008 the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the College of Occupational Therapists joined forces to host expert roundtable discussions which addressed the thorny, practical issues about vocational rehabilitation - what is it, who can deliver it, who pays? This paper is the result, and can be accessed here.

White Paper: Building the National Care Service

The White Paper sets out the Government's proposals to build a comprehensive National Care Service for all adults in England with an eligible care need, free when they need it. View the Paper here.

Work, Recovery and Inclusion

A report entitled "Work, Recovery and Inclusion" released by the Cabinet Office on 7 December 2009 outlines that people with the most severe mental health conditions are able to not only work, but that working benefits their mental health positively and can support their recovery. Click here to read more.

Working for a Healthier Tomorrow

In Dame Carol Black's Review into the health of Britain's working age population, there is a call for urgent and comprehensive reform and a new approach to health and work in the UK. To read the Review, click here. 

View the Government's response to the Review here.

Working our Way to Better Mental Health: a framework for action

This Framework, the first ever national mental health and employment strategy in the UK, is designed to improve well-being at work for everyone, and to deliver significantly better employment results for people with mental health conditions. Access the Framework here.