Welcome to the new Acute Care Programme website.

The new Acute Care Programme site will keep you in touch with news, events, policy, and best practice in Acute Care. Keeping in contact with each other is vitally important in addressing current policy, standards and evidence based practice, so you can contact us to share your innovative practice, ideas and good news stories. Go to the Virtual Ward section in Our Work and you can upload your ideas and comments there.

To search this site for useful resources, enter a keyword, author or title in the search box at the top of each page. You can also search for specific topics from any page in the Our Work section using the Tag Cloud panel. Click on a word in the tag cloud and you'll see a list of titles and a short summary of the resources tagged with this word. Scroll to the bottom of the page for watch the video Listening to Carers, for the events calendar and to register for email updates and news.

NEW HORIZONS LAUNCHED

Prime Minister, Gordon Brown said about the New Horizons strategy that was launched on 7th December: “This is about more than preventing mental illness...it is also about helping individuals and communities to bring the best out of themselves”.  Click here to download the complete document, New Horizons: A Shared Vision for Mental Health. You can also download the other two documents published as part of this new initiative: Work Recovery and Inclusion and the mental health and employment strategy: Working our way to Better Mental Health: a framework for action. Visit the New Horizons website to read more.  NEW: Read the Guardian Society experts` debate on turning New Horizons policy into effective practice.

The Acute Care Declaration was launched in Birmingham on 12th November at the Mental Health Services Fit for the Future conference. Click on the image on the far left to download a copy of the declaration. Click on the image on the left to download a copy of the poster. Read the Press release, or the background to the declaration