Commissioning stepped care for people with common mental health disorders

This is an extract from the commissioning guide. The complete commissioning guide is available at www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cmg41

5 Service components for stepped care

The key service components when commissioning stepped care for people with common mental health disorders are:

Section 5.1: specifying step 1 services for people presenting with known and suspected common mental health disorders
Section 5.2: specifying step 2 services for people with subthreshold, mild and moderate common mental health disorders
Section 5.3: specifying step 3 services for people with moderate to severe common mental health disorders
Section 5.4: specifying step 4 services for people with severe functional impairment or complex common mental health disorders
Section 5.5: service models.