Black Mental Health UK: your news, policy and research resource on mental health and African Caribbean communities. We aim to reduce the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities and inform these communities on how to influence the strategic development, policy design and implementation of services.

This report endeavours to specify the costs a service for working age adults in England that delivers the Government's key policy objectives for mental health, in particular the National Service Framework for Mental Health (Department of Health, 1999).

This policy paper produced by the Sainbury Centre for Mental Health makes it clear that there is an extensive body of evidence to show that there a significant difference in the way Black African and Caribbean people who come into contact with mental health services and the treatment they receive compared with the rest of the population. 

This report details service user experience of in-patient mental health services.
Black and mixed heritage respondents expressed what has been voiced in a catalogue of reports over the last thirty years on this issue, that services are seriously failing to provide relevant, supportive, respectful care and that service users are wary of professionals attitudes

There is controversy as to whether compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illnesses reduces health service use, or improves clinical outcome and social functioning. Given the introduction of widespread use of such powers in the 2007 Mental Health Act this report purports it is important to assess the effects of this type of legislation.

Avoidable Deaths is the latest report from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. It is a five year report of the national confidential inquiry into homocide and suicide. 

This report was commissioned to looked at the international experiences of CTO (Community Treatment Orders) at a when mental health legislation was under review. Considerations were being made as to the feasibility of the introduction of CTOs in the UK.  The authors of the study conclude that compulsory CTOs alone do not reduce admission rates.

  Results of a national census of inpatient in mental health hospitals and facilities in England and Wales

This census report is the first ever comprehensive survey of publicly funded mental health services since 1995. This study describes what was found by researchers  from Healthcare Commission, the Mental Health Act Commission and the National Institute for Mental Health in England.