Working together for
mental well-being
Welcome to the forum for mental health in primary care
The Forum is a collaboration hosted jointly
between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of
General Practitioners and held its first official meeting in
January 2009.
The aims of the forum are to:
- guide and promote good practice in mental health care across
generalist and specialist health care services
- influence and support the work of practitioners at every level
of service and in particular those at the frontline of service
delivery.
- act as an expert resource to organisations with an interest in
mental health
- build and support collaborative ventures between
organisations
- influence national policy and strategy
- collaborate with service user and carer organisations to
improve the patient’s experience of mental health care
- influence and support research, audit and quality improvement
initiative
These pages bring together the activities of
the Forum with other initiatives within both Colleges and provides
a resource of information, leaflets, publications, other
organisations, future meetings, conferences and other events.
Forum contributors/administration:
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Carolyn Chew Graham
(co-Chair)
Roger Banks
(co-chair)
Saqib
Ahmad
Jo
Grim
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RCGP
RCPsych
RCGP (staff)
RCPsych (staff)
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Activities and collaborations:
Consolidation of the relationship between the
Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of
Psychiatrists
- Establishment of a Joint Educational Advisory
Group.
Agreed series of articles for RCGP
News on mental health
Work originating from a summit on the Mental
Health of our Elders – Jan 2008:
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Position statement on smoking and mental health (published July
08): Profiles the importance of smoking as a cause of serious
health risk for people with mental disorders. Produced by Faculty
of Public Health and endorsed by RCGP, RCPsych, RCN, CIEH and
Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation.
Joint guidance for frontline practitioners
on why this is important, and practical considerations plus actions
to take (published December 08).
RCPsych
RCGP
RCN (tbc)
NIMHE / CSIP
WAMHinPC
Member organisations
RCPsych -
Primary Care Network
RCGP -
Mental Health Task Group / CIRC
RCN
(tbc)
NIMHE / CSIP
WAMHinPC
PRIMHE
Current activities
Primary care mental health resources
Publications
Websites
Video
Podcasts
Artworks from the Queensland Centre for
Mental Health Research collection