18 2017
Thrive London – Employment and Mental Health
You can download the final report here
What is this research?
We were commissioned by the London Health Board and the London Mental Health & Employment Collaboration to carry out a small study to illustrate the experiences of Londoners who have been affected by serious mental health problems and are either in work or looking for a job.
Read More23 2017
Research in English NHS Mental Health Trusts
Download our briefing Everywhere and Everyone Included? research in NHS Mental Health Trusts in England
What is this work?
We wanted to understand how research active NHS mental health trusts in England are, and what the barriers to trusts hosting or developing research are.
Read More7 2017
Mental Health Peer Health Coaching Initiative – Evaluation
The final report is available to download here
What was this project?
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust commissioned the McPin Foundation to carry out an independent evaluation of a peer coaching project. The project was co-designed and led by trust staff and people with experience of mental health problems.
Read More11 2017
My Support Broker, Evaluation
This project is now completed, and the two volumes of the report are available to download.
What is this research?
My Support Broker is a social business that provides independent support brokerage to help people with social care needs plan and manage their support.
Read More11 2017
Suicide Prevention & Bereavement Support
What is this research?
We have collaborated on a number of projects looking at how suicide can be prevented and how people who are bereaved by suicide are supported. These include:
- Using funds from the Judi Meadows Memorial Fund we are supporting, with the University of Exeter, a PhD studentship examining how GPs can identify and better support people who are in psychological distress and may be at risk from suicide.
5 2016
Peer Mentoring Service at Camden VoiceAbility – A Qualitative Evaluation
Download the final evaluation report
What was this project?
Camden Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) asked the McPin Foundation to carry out an independent evaluation of the peer mentoring service run by Camden VoiceAbility. Peer mentoring through VoiceAbility involved a mentee setting short-term, achievable goals with a mentor, who had been through similar experiences.
Read More23 2016
Information and Psychosis
A summary of our findings can be found here.
What was this research?
This project included focus groups and one-to-one interviews with a total of 27 service users with experience of psychosis and 16 carers. The project aimed to support the work of Imperial College Health Partners who have developed a psychosis pathway and are working locally to improve outcomes for people with psychosis.
Read More11 2016
100 people: Evaluation of Employment Support
Download the final report on the 100 People Project
Download the summary report on the 100 People Project
What is this research?
Funded by the Trust for London, the 100 people project will delivered specialist employment support to people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder using the Individual Placement and Support model.
Read More22 2016
SLaM Recovery College Evaluation
We've just begun some exciting new work on an evaluation of the SLaM Recovery College. Throughout the evaluation we'll be talking with students and tutors of the college, and stakeholders in the local community to find out how the recovery college approach to mental health is working in SLaM for students at the college. The Recovery College Model revolves around recovery based education classes that are co-produced by service user and health care practitioner tutors and jointly delivered to a mix of service user, carer and health care professional students who learn together within the college.
Read More25 2015
A service user evaluation of IAPT for people with a severe mental illness
We have just produced two reports from our service user evaluation of IAPT for SMI funded by NHS England. The su
10 2015
Side by Side: A National Evaluation of Peer Support
Mind, Bipolar UK and Depression Alliance have been funded by the Big Lottery Fund to develop a programme that will raise awareness of, and deliver, mental health peer support across nine regions of England and their online peer support platform, Elefriends. The McPin Foundation are working with St George's, University of London and the London School of Economics to evaluate the programme. We will seek to understand the principles and values that lie at the heart of peer support and develop the best way to support and expand the sector based on the evidence we gather. We will also be exploring the impact of the programme over a 12 month period. Read More9 2015
Trial of Sertraline versus CBT for generalised Anxiety (ToSCA)
The following text has been adapted from the protocol for the study
1. What is this research?
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is common, causes unpleasant feelings and damages people’s lives. It is often chronic and may be accompanied by depression. Recent NICE guidelines have outlined the best initial treatments but it isn’t clear whether medication or psychological therapy provides better outcomes for those not responding to simpler low intensity treatments.
Read More24 2015
Kent Wellbeing Programme Evaluation
Reports
Our final report on our evaluation of the Kent Mental Wellbeing programme is now available. If you would like any further information about the evaluation or report, please feel free to contact Rose – rosethompson@mcpin.org.
Kent Wellbeing final summary report
You can see our reports from the Theory of Change work from the first phase of the evaluation by clicking below:
Kent Wellbeing Concept mapping summary report
Kent Wellbeing Concept mapping full report
You can see individual project reports for 3 of our Kent projects by clicking below:
What is this research?
Read More20 2014
The Primrose project: severe mental illness and physical health
The Primrose project is a large scale research study based at University College London and we support a Lived Experience Advisory Panel co-ordinated by Dr Ben Gray. People with mental health problems are at greater risk of developing heart problems. The Primrose project aims to develop and pilot a new service in primary care that improves the care of people with mental health problems and reduces their likelihood of having heart problems. Read More20 2014
Cochrane summaries
The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group is internationally recognised and based at the University of Nottingham. The group produce systematic reviews on the latest evidence about schizophrenia. The reviews focus on the latest randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in the treatment of schizophrenia. Read More28 2014
Crisis Care Concordat evaluation
What was this evaluation?
The Crisis Care Concordat was launched in February 2014. It is an England-wide national agreement between the different agencies and services involved in the care of people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, a mental health crisis.
Read More20 2014
Driving Change: Global mental health report
We worked with Mind to support the global mental health forum for the World Innovation Summit in Health (WISH) which met in Doha, December 2013. Our role was to work with mental health NGOs across the world to understand their views and experiences of innovations in mental health care.
Read More20 2014
PEOPLE Study – evaluating personalisation and personal budgets

25 2014
Your Experience in Mind, Survey

25 2014
Birth Companions

22 2013
Viewpoint Survey on stigma and discrimination

22 2013
Decisions about Medication during Pregnancy

22 2013
Young people’s anti-stigma campaign

5 2013
Community Health Networks research
