National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

Not to be confused with National Center for Mental Health.

National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
Agency overview
HeadquartersRoyal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London
Agency executives
  • Professor Tim Kendall, Medical Director
  • Professor Steve Pilling, Academic Director
  • Dr Shubulade Smith CBE, National Clinical Director
  • Tom Ayers, Senior Associate Director
Websitewww.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/nccmh

The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) is a collaboration between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness at University College London (UCL). The NCCMH aims to promote the role of evidence synthesis in making informed judgments about healthcare policy. The NCCMH has a history of developing guidelines, conducting systematic reviews and developing implementation guidance for commissioners and service providers. Formed in 2001,[1] on 1 April 2016 a new guideline development centre, the National Guideline Alliance, based at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists took over the clinical guideline programme that had been run by NCCMH.[2]

  1. ^ Kendall, Tim (3 May 2004). "Clinical Guidelines in Mental Health I: The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health". BJPsych Bulletin. 28 (5).
  2. ^ "Work in Psychiatry: NCCMH". Royal College of Psychiatrists. Retrieved 7 July 2017.