DCP Briefing Paper June 2014: Mental health clustering and psychological interventions
Provides details of psychological components of each care package within the national Mental Health Payment by Results (PbR) programme.
18 June 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide details of the psychological components of each care package within the national Mental Health Payment by Results (PbR) programme. The PbR programme utilises 20 individual 'care clusters', each differentiated in terms of presentation, severity and duration of care, to specify the 'package' of care required to meet the needs of service users. This document illustrates how NICE recommendations can be utilised to specify the first line treatment evidence for each care package, but also how to incorporate other evidence that is important in considering how best to provide effective and efficient psychological interventions for people within the clusters.