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We need to bring mental health care closer to home

Sending people away from their families to receive mental health care is wrong for patients and bad for NHS budgets, writes Emma Paveley.

13 January 2026

Keeping the ambition high in neighbourhood health

The ambitions of the neighbourhood health vision must not be diluted by the practicalities of implementation.

22 December 2025

Reforms to Mental Health Act set to pass into law

The Mental Health Act gains Royal Assent following years of work by different governments and lobbying from NHS Confederation to update the 2007 Act.

18 December 2025

Seven steps to deliver on integration

Integrated neighbourhood health and wellbeing is not something to wait for. It is something every system can already do.

18 December 2025

Welsh NHS Confederation welcomes GMS contract agreement

NHS leaders welcome General Medical Services Contract Reform for 2025-26, with measures key to supporting the shift to providing care closer to home.

12 December 2025

CQC assessment framework consultation

NHS Confederation and NHS Providers' view on the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) assessment framework consultation.

12 December 2025

What is the role of NHS charities in Wales?

The next in the Welsh NHS Confederation's explainer series focuses on NHS charities in Wales.

11 December 2025

Supporting people with serious mental illness to live well out of hospital

Out of area placements in Oxfordshire reached their lowest level through a supported housing service for people with complex mental health challenges.

5 December 2025

Northamptonshire Healthcare's mental health recovery pathway

The trust developed a new psychological, non-medical model of care with a strong recovery ethos, which reduced out of area placements.

5 December 2025

Expanding local capacity in Preston to reduce out of area placements

The Priory collaborated with NHS teams to co-produce a 12-bed acute inpatient mental health ward for adults, which reduced out of area placements.

5 December 2025