The Forum for Mental Health in Primary
Care
The Forum is a collaboration hosted jointly
between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of
General Practitioners which held its first meeting in January
2009.
The aims of the forum are
to:
- guide and promote good practice in mental health care across
generalist and specialist health care services
- Influence and support the work of practitioners at every level
of service and in particular those at the frontline of service
delivery.
- act as an expert resource to organisations with an interest in
mental health
- build and support collaborative ventures between
organisations
- influence national policy and strategy
- collaborate with service user and carer organisations to
improve the patient’s experience of mental health care
- influence and support research, audit and quality improvement
initiative
Terms of
Reference (PDF Document)
These pages bring together the activities of
the Forum with other initiatives within both Colleges and provide
resource in the form of leaflets, publications and guidance
documents, work with other organisations, future meetings,
conferences and other events.
Other pages:
If you want further information on the work of the Forum please
email mhforum@rcgp.org.uk
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Royal College of Psychiatrists - Forum for mental health
in primary care