Commissioning services

Are you a commissioner looking for high quality, innovative, outcomes-focused mental health services?

Rethink Mental Illness is the largest voluntary sector provider of mental health services with around 250 services across England.

We are also the largest national mental health membership charity, and place the experiences of people affected by mental illness at the heart of everything we do.

Prime Minister, David Cameron listening to Rethink Members about NHS plansWe combine the infrastructure, influence and added value of a large organisation with the flexibility and local knowledge to work with you to meet local needs in your area.

As well as working with local commissioners, we are involved in national work to provide practical guidance and a framework for mental health commissioning.

"Rethink is a pioneering organisation – always looking at new approaches to delivering services."

Commissioner

Women chatting, Ealing Carers Support Our services include:

  • Advocacy services, including IMCA and IMHA, described by one service user as "by far the best advocacy service I have encountered"
  • Carer support, including respite, support groups, training and specialist services that "meet the needs of mental illness carers in a way that generic carer services just couldn't"
  • Community support, including community services, befriending and one-to-one support that promote recovery and social inclusion
  • Complex needs
  • Criminal justice services, including mental health awareness training, offender wellbeing, and community liaison and diversion
  • Crisis services that help reduce costly hospital admissions, including the award-winning Rotherham Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service
  • Employment and training services that "prove invaluable in helping to move on and gain skills in living in the community", including supported employment, mentoring and employer support
  • Helplines and advice services which 91% of users feel are of benefit - from specialised helplines to the national Rethink Advice and Information Service
  • Housing services that help people to lead more independent lives, from 24 hour supported housing to floating support 
  • Nursing and residential care providing supportive environments for every stage of the recovery process, helping one service user to "make a whole turnaround... after five years in different hospitals"
  • Personal health budgets
  • Resettlement after prison
  • Respite
  • Talking therapies We are the leading voluntary sector provider of IAPT, working in partnership with NHS Trusts
  • Talking therapies in prisons
  • Young people services, including our innovative, evidence-based uthink and END programme.

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