www.mentalhealthinmanchester.org.uk  or www.mhim.org.uk
This is a portal site, managed by this service, which aims to provide indexed links to other people’s websites. The site categorises links by topic area and screens them for accuracy and clarity. It is hoped that this site would enable people to assemble personalised packages of information with minimum effort.

Information about mental health, mental illness, treatments & support.

• Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
  http://www.mhsc.nhs.uk/

• Mind in Manchester, with online directory of services.
  http://www.mind-in-manchester.org.uk/

• Manchester Primary Care Trust including information about mental health and wellbeing in the health information section.
  http://www.manchesterpct.nhs.uk/health/mental_health/

Mental health policy

• Young Minds. Information and discussion about mental health of children and young people.
  http://www.youngminds.org.uk/

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health, including mental health.
  http://www.nice.org.uk/

• Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Influencing mental health policy generally, but especially in relation to employment and criminal justice
  http://www.scmh.org.uk/

• Care Services Improvement Partnership/National Institute for Mental Health England. Lots of information about mental health policy development with link to the North West branch.
  http://nimhe.csip.org.uk/

• Royal College of Psychiatrists, with information about mental health and discussion of topical issues
  http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/

• The Mental Health Foundation, with information about mental health and discussion of topical issues
  http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/

• The Centre for Public Mental Health. Useful for some data about mental health
  http://www.dur.ac.uk/mental.health/index.php

• Manchester Public Health Development Service. Detail about promoting mental health in Manchester.
  www.manchesterpublichealthdevelopment.org

Recommended Bibliography

You may want to read one of the following recommended books:

These are available at your local library as part of the ‘Health Matters’ information points.