The Mental Health Nursing Review has a number of recommendations to improve standards of care for those with mental health issues.
Developed by mental health nurses and students, and academics, with support from carers and people accessing mental health nursing care, Scotland’s Mental Health Nursing Review has a number of recommendations to improve standards of care.
Recommendations include ensuring people accessing services have meaningful involvement in their mental health nursing care; improving support for newly qualified mental health nurses and sharing best practices; considering specific education needs for rural and island settings; and improving access to post-registration learning for mental health nurses across all sectors.
A new implementation group will be established to ensure effective collaboration, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the review actions.
“The report and its recommendations, mean that patients and mental health nurses who deliver services now and, in the future, will benefit from the reforms,” said Alex McMahon, chair of the review and former chief nursing officer.
“It will be important to ensure these recommendations are implemented, and one aspiration I and others share is that we will attract and retain even more people into undergraduate nursing degree programmes,” he continued.
The Mental Health Nursing Review started in 2024 and was an action within the government’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy’s Workforce Action Plan 2023-2025.
