Sharing quality and safety improvement work in the field of mental health

I welcome the findings of D’Lima, Crawford, Darzi and Archer on the relative scarcity of publications related to mental health quality and safety improvement within reputable quality and safety journals.

I agree with the authors’ proposition that there is increasing interest in the application of improvement science within the mental health field. A large number of providers of mental health services in the UK and beyond are now starting to apply quality improvement methods at scale. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has established a quality improvement committee over the past year, and has recently appointed its first quality improvement lead. There is also an organically growing global mental health improvement network (#MHimprove), which meets twice a year and has begun to present and share knowledge at large international conferences.