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Title: Onwards and upwards handbook
Published: 6th June 2007
Summary: CSIP-NIMHE, in collaboration with the Healthcare Commission, has produced an electronic handbook ‘Onwards and Upwards: Sustaining service improvement in acute care’ to help local services to carry out the review and to build on this to sustain improvements in acute care. It includes information and hyperlinks to the key policies that provided the standards for acute care and suggests action points for improving services. It also provides pointers to good practice and information about different initiatives and approaches to sustaining improvements in acute mental health.

The core competencies for service improvement document can be found within the Directory: http://www.csip.org.uk/resources/directory-of-service-improvement/nimhe-service-improvement-competence-framework.html
on the CSIP Knowledge Community:
http://kc.csip.org.uk/viewresource.php?action=viewdocument&doc=98374&grp=1
and it is also included on the service improvement page on the NIMHE website:
http://www.nimhe.csip.org.uk/our-work/service-improvement.html