Keep up to date with our latest news and blogs.  As part of our commitment to openness and transparency, we also share recent feedback from our clients and our monthly feedback scores.

 10/10/2019
Blog post Mental health services

World Mental Health Day - Insights from our Guest Blog Series

On World Mental Health Day 2019, we bring to a close the Strategy Unit’s guest blog series which explored the overlap between mental and physical health.

13/05/2019
News Mental health services

When mental illness and physical illness overlap

A series of guest blogs from Professor Sir Muir Gray, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT Medical Director - Dr Hilary Grant, Health Foundation Chief Executive - Jennifer Dixon, Mind's Director of External Relations - Sophie Corlett, GP & Clinical Director - Dr Paul Turner, and Diabetes UK - Colette Marshall.

07/05/2019
News Capacity and Demand | Evaluation | Secondary care

Survey: Seasonal Profiling in NHS Elective Care

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE & I) are exploring the opportunity of applying seasonal profiling in elective care.

13/03/2019
Blog post Mental health services | Primary Care

The body keeps the score (do we?)

In this fifth guest blog, in our series of viewpoints on the physical and clinical mental health divide, Dr Paul Turner, General Practitioner at Karis Medical Centre, Birmingham and Joint Clinical Director for Mental Health, NHSE West Midlands Clinical Network describes the cost of untreated complexity.

06/02/2019
Blog post Mental health services

They don’t believe you

Continuing our mental and physical health guest blog series, Sophie Corlett the Director of External Relations at Mind provides some perspectives from people with physical ailments who are users of mental health services.

10/10/2018
Blog post Mental health services

Warp and weft – recognising that physical and mental health are interwoven - By Professor Sir Muir Gray

On World Mental Health Day, we’re delighted to present a guest blog by Professor Sir Muir Gray, the first in a new series of commi

04/07/2018
Blog post Mental health services

Mental Health and integration: Cinderella or the Ugly Sisters?

Introduction

17/11/2017
News Evaluation | Secondary care

Understanding the Economic Impact of the NHS in the Black Country

Sign up for the NHS Confederation webinar and access the report by ICF and The Strategy Unit here. 

26/09/2017
Feedback from clients Mental health services | Secondary care

"This report is vitally important to us and a powerful call to action" - Mental Health Report

"I have quoted the headlines from this remarkable report at two board meetings over the last two days and the response has been ident