Core mental health standards

3. Improvement and Implementation

The standards aim to support services to improve the quality and safety of the care, treatment and support they provide. We will work with the Mental Health Standards Implementation Advisory Group – which has representatives from people who use, work in and manage mental health and psychological services – to develop an approach to implementation which is as supportive as possible.

We want to focus on identifying strengths in how services are delivered and support the sharing of good practice. As part of this support, Scottish Government and Partners will provide a programme of improvement support. We will initially implement the standards within adult secondary services through a pilot exercise, which will focus on refinement and use of the self assessment. More detail on this can be found in Annex A.