Mental health and wellbeing

Guidance

We use the best available evidence to develop recommendations that guide decisions in health, public health and social care.

Published guidance on this topic (12)

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Quality standards

Set out priority areas for quality improvement in health and social care.

Published quality standards on this topic (8)

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Updated quality standards in the last 6 months (0)
In development quality standards (1)

Guidance by programme

NICE guidelines (12)

Review the evidence across broad health and social care topics.

Products being developed or updated

In development (1)

Guidance, quality standards and advice being developed.

Blog on this topic

Sarah Fishburn, Quality Improvement Lead for Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network

Shared Learning Award 2019 finalist

Written by:: Sarah Fishburn, quality improvement lead, Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network
Published:: 08 May 2019

Reviewing the impact of our guidance

NICEimpact reports look at how the health and care system uses our recommendations to improve outcomes in priority areas.

NICEimpact mental health

How our evidence-based guidance contributes to improvements in the care of people with mental health conditions.

Mental health - NICEImpact report (PDF)

Putting guidance into practice

Shared learning

Examples of how our guidance and standards have been put into practice in the NHS, local authorities, voluntary sector and a range of other organisations.

Showing 3 of 16 shared learning examples for this topic:

Development of Black and minority ethnic (BME) patient-centred dietary resources to improve hyperkalaemia in chronic kidney disease patients

Published date:

March 2019
1Using NICE Quality Standards for antenatal and postnatal mental health to improve the quality of NHS services working with women during the perinatal period

Published date:

January 2019
A language specific and culturally adapted pain management programme

Published date:

May 2018

View all 16 shared learning examples

Podcasts

How can we help people who are lonely?

In this podcast we chat to:

Neil McCarthy from not-for-profit organisation Octavia and Gill Roberts about schemes that help people who are lonely.
Val about her personal experiences living in an Octavia extra care scheme.
Kate Terroni, Oxfordshire Council’s Adult Social Care Director about how Amazon Echos can reduce social isolation.
Alive Activities about older people in care.