Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)
Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych)
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

This joint position paper is the result of a collaboration between the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It is intended to make a positive and supportive contribution to the development of ideas, planning, service development and practice based on contemporary concepts of recovery.

It is based on the core belief that adopting recovery as a guiding purpose for mental health services favours hope and creativity over disillusionment and defeat. This paper sets the concept of recovery in the context of developing national and international practice and debate, seeking to explore definitions, together with the challenges and implications of adopting such an approach.

These challenges include reconsidering some fundamental concepts such as what it means to be a service delivery organisation, a professional, a person who uses services or a family member and how we judge effective treatments and supports.

This paper recognises that our services are at an early stage in developing a recovery orientation and that there is an associated need for a new research agenda to guide the way forward.

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A common purpose: Recovery in future mental health services

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