Mental Health Nursing Review: monthly updates

The Scottish Mental Health Nursing Review Report - Advancing Our Commitment to Care, Compassion and Connection has now been published, setting out a series of recommendations to support and strengthen the mental health nursing workforce and improve outcomes for people using services.

One of the key actions arising from the review was the establishment of an implementation group to oversee delivery of the report's recommendations and drive forward change across the sector.

Since its establishment, the implementation group has been working with partners across health, social care, education and professional bodies to develop a coordinated approach to implementation. The group is providing oversight of progress, identifying priorities for action and supporting collaboration to ensure the review's recommendations are translated into meaningful improvements in practice.

Included within this work is the alignment of the recommendations from the Ministerial Scottish Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce: report and recommended actions, who published their report in February 2025. 

So far, we have been able to:

• establish a Mental Health Nursing Review Implementation Group
• prepare an alignment paper, setting out the complementary actions   and recommendations from the Mental Health Nursing Review and the NMT
• we will also establish three sub-groups to take forward the 24 recommendations contained in the Mental Health Nursing Review. These sub- groups will focus on the five themes contained in the review – strengthening the contribution and impact of the workforce and nurturing the workforce (combined), mental health nursing leadership and the education and development of the workforce

Rural and island considerations will feature in each sub group.

Further updates on the work of the implementation group and progress against the review's recommendations will be published on this page.