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Improving care
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- Campaigning for better mental health policy
  
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  Five Year Forward View
  
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- Planning the psychiatric workforce
  
  Planning the psychiatric workforce
  
  What we do
  
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- National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
  
  National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
  
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  Reducing restrictive practice
  
  National suicide prevention programme
- Working sustainably
  
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