Centre for Mental Health

Key organisational challenges

We have identified some of the key changes that will be needed in the practices of mental health workers, the types of services provided and the culture of organisations to incorporate recovery principles into routine practice in mental health services:

1. Changing the nature of day-to-day interactions and the quality of experience
2. Delivering comprehensive, user-led education and training programmes
3. Establishing a Recovery Education Unit to drive the programmes forward
4. Ensuring organisational commitment, creating the culture
5. Increasing personalisation and choice
6. Transforming the workforce
7. Changing the way we approach risk assessment and management
8. Redefining user involvement
9. Supporting staff in their recovery journey
10. Increasing opportunities for building a life beyond illness

For more information, read Implementing Recovery: A new framework for organisational change.