ABSTRACT
Education and training for the mental health professions is a priority area. At a national policy-making level, attention in recent years has turned to how best to prepare the mental health workforce to deliver long-term strategies such as England’s National service framework for mental health (NSF) (Department of Health 1999). For example, since the publication of the NSF, considerable work
• Education and training for the mental health professions is a priority area. However, the education and training of community mental health nurses has frequently been subject to the whims of service provision.
