Further steps to define and deliver high quality care for care clusters: the mental health care clusters and pathways website

Purpose – With care clusters an established framework for mental health services it is timely to consider how to use them to deliver high quality, evidence based care that is socially inclusive and recovery oriented. This paper aims to describe conceptual thinking about these issues, specifically in relation to the challenges and balances inherent in the care packages approach. It seeks to describe work to develop an internet based, high‐level description of such packages for each care cluster.Design/methodology/approach – The background to the project is described, along with a discussion of the conceptual and practice issues behind the work.Findings – With mental health care now trying to make sense of local services in terms of care clusters the authors offer a high‐level framework to help people in this sensemaking. Coherent, socially inclusive and recovery oriented packages are set out on the website.Research limitations/implications – The work discussed in the article is highly innovative, being the...