• Adult emergency services
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular
• Commissioning support
• COPD
• Children and young people
• Dementia
• Diabetes
• Disabled children
• End of life care
• Immunisations and vaccinations
• Local hospitals
• London and South East England specialised burns project
• Major trauma
• Maternity
• Medically unexplained symptoms
• Mental health
  • Commissioners Collaborative
  • Children and families
  • Commissioning (pre-March 2011)
  • Working Together for Better Mental Health
  • Payment by results (PbR)
    • PbR eBulletin
    • Useful resources
    • London Mental Health PbR Symposium, 23rd March 2012
  • Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
  • Models of care project
  • Social inclusion and employment
  • Publications
• Paediatric emergency services
• Polysystems
• Quality and Safety Programme
• Staying healthy
• Stroke
• Tuberculosis
• Unscheduled care

Useful resources

Policy documents

Final guidance 2012/13: Final PbR guidance for 2012/13 including letter from David Flory and other guidance.

Mental Health Clustering Tool 201/13: A manual on how to allocate service users to care clusters. 

Reference costs guidance and NHS costing manual: Guidance for the collection of 2011-12 reference costs from NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts in July 2012 (section 8, page 80 refers to mental health services) and a revised NHS Costing Manual which sets out mandatory and minimum principles and practices that must be applied to costing in the NHS.

Best practice

IMHSEC tool: A clusters pathway guide designed to give a high level overview of good practice, evidence informed care pathways for each of the care clusters.

London MH PbR MoU Dec 2011 Final: London wide Mental Health PbR MOU between providers and commissioners as agreed by the London Currencies Development Board and the Mental Health PbR Steering Group

CPPP Memorandum of Understanding: Example of an MOU developed by CPPP between commissioner and provider.

Norfolk and Waveney MH FT Integrated Care Packages and Pathways Approach: Examples of core interventions for each of the care clusters from Norfolk and Waveney.

Oxleas care pathways: This is a summary of the work carried out by Dr Pratima Singh on MH PbR. The work focused on a number of key areas including cluster variations and developing evidence-based care clusters.

Clinical audit of MHCT initial cluster allocation: This is an example of an audit tool used at the initial cluster allocation stage. This tool can be used by providers and commissioners to monitor to ensure that there is consistency and accuracy in their clustering allocation process.

Clinical audit of MHCT and transition/discharge protocol: This tool is similar to the above however it is used at the transition and discharge stage. It can also be used to audit this process to ensure consistency.

Costing

London Readiness for Local Prices: Final report (29 March 2012)  from Richard Russell on London’s state of readiness for sharing local prices.

HFMA survey report: In May 2011, HFMA MH Finance conducted a survey of senior mental health finance staff to assess the current situation in relation to the operation of payment by results within mental health.

HFMA Mental health payment by results survey report: A series of slides given at the HFMA’s MH PbR Forum which took place on 20 October 2011.

Outcomes

No Health Without Mental Health – Developing an Outcomes Based Approach: A Mental Health Network NHS Confederation report produced for the DH in December 2011 to assist in developing a way forward for an outcomes based approach to the objectives of the mental health strategy and assess what early priorities for further work should be.

Developing an outcomes based approach in mental health briefing: A briefing on the above document produced by the NHS Confederation.