Reports and training materials

• Mental health and the economic downturn - National priorities and NHS Solutions
• New Horizons - a shared vision for mental health.  This DH report describes the importance of mental health being regarded as importantly as physical health, and makes specific reference to liaison psychiatry on pgs 52, 53 & 86

You may be interested in some of the following CPD online modules:

• Don't shrink ... from ECGs
• Managing depression in physically ill patients
• Physical healthcare in severe mental illness
• Polypharmacy - causes and consequences
• Substance misuse in older people
• The physical examination in psychiatric practice

Resource library

Resource library – coming soon

PLAN members will be able to use this space to share key documents and policies, as well as links to websites and online resources, which other teams may find useful. Passwords will be issued shortly to ensure that information is protected and will only be available to other PLAN members.  If you have any resources, such as those listed below, that you wish to share with others, please email plan@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk. 

For example, please share any resources on:          

Policies on referral

Referral criteria

Care pathways 

Practitioners' guides 

Patient involvement

Commissioning 

Managing risk