Safety, Quality and Standards
Service Frameworks
Mental Health and Wellbeing
The project leads for this framework are Fionnuala Mc Andrew, Director of Social Services, Health and Socail Care Board, and Dr Stephen Bergin, Public Health Consultant, Public Health Agency; and the project manager is Maureen Ferris
Service Framework Documents
- Service Framework for Mental Health and Wellbeing (Full Document) (PDF 1336 KB)
- Summary of Standards (PDF 130KB)
Below are links to each section for quick access to your area of interest -
- Foreword (PDF 14KB)
- A Note on Terminology (PDF 10KB)
- Section 1: An Introduction to Service Frameworks (PDF 45KB)
- Section 2: Service Framework for Mental Health and Wellbeing - Introduction (PDF 67KB)
- Section 3: Standards for Health Improvement and Mental Health Promotion (PDF 91KB)
- Section 4: Standards for Improving the Experience of Service Users and Carers (PDF 178KB)
- Section 5: Standards for Specific Conditions - Children and Young People (PDF 10KB)
- Section 6: Standards for Specific Conditions (PDF 9KB)
- 6.1 Anxiety Depression - Adults (PDF 37KB)
- 6.2 First Episode Psychosis - Early Interventions in Psychosis (PDF 29KB)
- 6.3 Schizophrenia and other psychoses (PDF 32KB)
- 6.4 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (PDF 28KB)
- 6.5 Bipolar Disorder (PDF 29KB)
- 6.6 Addictions and Substance Misuse (PDF 38KB)
- 6.7 Eating Disorders (PDF 39KB)
- 6.8 Mental Health Component of Asperger Syndrome (PDF 23KB)
- 6.9 Dementia (PDF 32KB)
- Section 7: Standards for People with Specific Needs (PDF 10KB)
- 7.1 Perinatal mental health (PDF 33KB)
- 7.2 Older people's mental health (PDF 36KB)
- 7.3 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (PDF 28KB)
- 7.4 Personality Disorders (PDF 27KB)
- 7.5 Self Harm and Suicide (PDF 40KB)
- 7.6 Brain Injury (PDF 28KB)
- 7.7 Deaf People with Mental Health Needs (PDF 33KB)
- 7.8 Gender Dysphoria (PDF 28KB)
- 7.9 Forensic Mental Health (PDF 26KB)
- 7.10 Learning Disability with Mental Health Needs (PDF 26KB)
- 7.11 Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (PDF 24KB)
- 7.12 Homeless People (PDF 22KB)
- Appendices (PDF 382KB)
