The MHCT has been developed in partnership between the
Department of Health, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the
Care Pathways and Packages Project (CPPP) as a means of allocating
clients to Care Clusters which in turn supports care planning and
enables Mental Health Payment by Results (MH PbR). The MHCT retains
the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and thus supports
providers and commissioners in measuring health and social care
outcomes in mental health without the need to collect additional
data.
HoNOS was published by the Royal
College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in 1996 and is now the most
widely used outcome measure in specialist mental health services in
England and overseas. The RCPsych has over 15 years experience of
training clinical staff in the use of the HoNOS, working with staff
teams to train them as trainers and with Trusts to develop and
support Trust wide training and implementation plans.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
MHCT Training Provision
To support mental health service
providers and commissioners in implementing MH PbR, the following
training courses are available:
- Mental Health Clustering Tool
– Foundation One Day Training Course. Delivered directly
to all staff who will be involved in assessment and clustering
- Mental Health Clustering Tool
– Train the Trainers Two Day Course. Designed to help
organisations train staff and implement MHCT . For
organisations which have no previous experience of using HoNOS
- Mental Health Clustering Tool
– Train the Trainers Course One Day Update Course.
Designed to help organisations train staff and implement MHCT. For
organisations which HAVE previous experience of using HoNOS
- Bespoke courses on request to
suit your specific organisational needs (NB. HoNOS
only training courses are available on
request)
Further information can be found in
the Mental Health
Custering Tool Training Course leaflet
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has
developed, with the support of the Department of Health and CPPP, a
diagnostic assessment to assist organisations in their planning and
implementation of MHCT and MH PbR.
This is available free of charge and can be downloaded
below:
Please contact CETC on 020 7977 6654 or cetc@rcpsych.ac.uk for information
on the MHCT training.