QNPMHS: Our events and training
Save the date: QNPMHS 2025 Annual Forum
The Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services (QNPMHS) will be hosting its 10th annual forum on 9 July 2025 - save the date!
The Quality Network are planning an engaging and interactive day. We will have a number of expert keynote presentations in the Prison field. Further details, including a programme for the day will be sent out shortly.
Details of the event
Date: Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Time: 9:30am to 3:15pm (final programme and timings to be confirmed)
Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
Cost: The QNPMHS annual forum is free for anyone working in a member service. Patients and carers are also able to attend the event for free. If you are not a member but would like to attend, this will cost £80 for the full day.
To book your place, complete this booking form.
If you have any questions about this event or future Network events, please get in touch with us at prisonnetwork@rcpsych.ac.uk.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Save the date: Improving Transfer and Remission: A joint event working to transform care together
The Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services (QNPMHS), Quality Network for Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (QNPICU) and Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services (QNFMHS) are excited to announce the joint event on 'Improving Transfer and Remission' on 21 October 2025.
Further details, including a programme for the day, will be sent out in due course.
Details of the event
Date: 21 October 2025
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm (Timings to be confirmed)
Location: 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB
Prices
- £80 for anyone working in a member service for any of the three networks.
- £115 for non-members
- Patients and carers are able to attend the event for free.
We will be in touch with you about taking payment.
To book your place, complete this booking form.
If you have any questions about this event or future Network events, please get in touch with us at prisonnetwork@rcpsych.ac.uk.
You can also follow our X (formerly Twitter) page @rcpsychQNPMHS to keep up to date with event announcements and Network opportunities.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Reviewer training is a free event for staff from a service that is a member of the Quality Network. The training is a great learning experience for those who are interested in participating in external peer-reviews of mental health services in prison.
Learning objectives
The training will give potential reviewers the opportunity to gain practical knowledge about how to conduct a peer-review visit.
The training day will involve presentations, discussions and workshops created to develop the skills of a reviewer.
By the end of the training participants will be able to:
- describe the Quality Network’s overall peer-review review process
- deliver the role and responsibilities of the reviewer before, during and after the peer-review
- troubleshoot and manage complaints and other difficulties that may arise during a peer-review
- describe and promote the ethos of the Quality Network’s peer-reviews
- describe the key benefits of the peer-review process and membership of the Quality Network.
The training is free to member services.
Book your place
We have condensed the training to just two hours, on the following dates:
- Tuesday 20 May 2025 (1 - 3pm)
To book, please use this registration form.
The QNPMHS International Membership Launch webinar took place on 24 January 2025.
You can watch a recording of the webinar below:
Overview of the webinar
The webinar includes presentations by Dr Andrew Carroll, the Deputy Chief Psychiatrist for Forensic Mental Health at the Victorian Department of Health, who will be discussing prison psychiatry in Australia and highlighting the top five challenges currently faced in the field. Our next speaker, Professor Mohammed Al-Uzri, the Presidential Lead for Global Mental Health at The Royal College of Psychiatrists, is a key figure in expanding the College’s global reach, and addresses the wider challenges in international psychiatry.
The aim for the international membership is to continue expanding the membership and develop an international learning community where members can share challenges, ideas and good practices to improve services. Members will participate in a ‘virtual visit’ focused on open-discussion, as opposed to a standards-focused review. The peer-review team will consist of another international service and UK and/or Ireland-based peers.
Please see the membership benefits poster (PDF) to learn more about the international membership.
International colleagues can complete this joining form to express their interest to be a member. Please note: requests to register will be accepted on a case-by-case basis.
To register your interest in becoming a peer-reviewer for the pilot of the QNPMHS International Membership, please complete this form. Open discussions will be held online and will run for three hours. The open discussions aim to offer support to services through shared good practice and collaboration.
If you would like to access presentations from our past events such as online webinars and annual forums, you can find these on our group page on Knowledge Hub under the 'library' tab.
To join Knowledge Hub, email 'join' to prisonnetwork@rcpsych.ac.uk.
Our Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services (QNPMHS) team created a series of webinars for the CCQI during the COVID-19 pandemic.
