Resources for patients and carers

The Afiya Trust – reducing inequalities in health and social care for racialised groups.

Carers in Partnership – promotes the involvement of family members and friends in the way that mental health services are planned, set up and run.

Grapevine – a charity run in partnership with people with learning disabilities, working together to bring about change.

Mental Health Care – contains information about psychosis for family members and friends.

Rethink Local – working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.

Sure Search – a network of service users in research and education; welcomes as members, users and survivors of mental health services and their allies, who have experience and/or interest in mental health research and education

The Meriden Programme – the Meriden West Midlands Family Programme site has been developed for use by service users, carers, family members and staff working in mental health services.

Time to Change – campaigns to end the stigma and discrimination that people with mental health problems face.

Medicines management: everybody's business – this leaflet, produced by NIMHE National Workforce Programme, aims to empower service users and carers to ask relevant questions about medication and have their views taken into account, and to help health and social care practitioners improve their person-centred approach in the area of medicines management.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists mental health information section has readable, user-friendly and accurate information about mental health problems. This includes fact sheets and leaflets to download and print.