Investigating the Levels of Inter-Agency Collaboration Between Health, Social Care and Housing Agencies when Providing Services for People with a Severe Mental Illness

Brief summary of a research project about levels of collaboration between agencies in the provision of services to people with mental illnesses in the UK, which was to be carried out between 1997 and 1999. The research was to involve three stages: 1) development of performance indicators for mental health services; 2) testing the extent to which agencies meet the performance standards; and 3) case study work to see if the adoption of the indicators and systems for working together are efficient.