NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care are inviting organisations, professionals and partners across health and care to contribute to the development of a new Modern Service Framework (MSF) for Severe Mental Illness (SMI).
The framework forms part of the government’s wider 10 Year Health Plan and will help define what high-quality, evidence-based and equitable care for people with severe mental illness should look like over the next decade.
The work is aligned to the wider system ‘three shifts’:
- from sickness to prevention
- from hospital to community
- from analogue to digital
As part of this process, a national call for proposals has now opened to gather ideas, interventions and areas of activity that could help improve outcomes for people living with severe mental illness.
The current overarching ambition for the framework is:
“By 2035, people with severe mental illness will live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives through high-quality, integrated, and equitable care.”
The survey invites organisations and individuals to submit proposals that could help achieve this goal. This could include interventions, approaches or areas of work linked to mental health support, health inequalities, housing, employment, justice, social care, lived experience, VCSE activity, research or wider system transformation.
Submissions are welcome from:
- VCSE organisations
- lived experience representatives
- commissioners
- NHS and social care professionals
- housing, justice and employment partners
- researchers and academics
- wider health and care networks
The survey asks for information about the proposed intervention, who it is intended to support, expected outcomes, evidence or learning behind the approach, delivery considerations and how impact could be measured.
The survey is expected to take between one and two hours to complete.
The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Thursday 28 May 2026.
Complete the survey here:
https://forms.office.com/e/Djzmpi2Khs
Further information and support are available from the SMI MSF team:
[email protected]
A Plain English and Easy Read version can also be requested
