Materials from previous events in our National Learning System can be found below:

• Care, Recovery, and Suicide Prevention, December 2025
• Putting Evidence into Practice, November 2025
• Primary Care and Missingness, October 2025
• Options Appraisal: Different ways to embed collaborative care, September 2025
• Improving Interfaces, May 2025
• Crisis and out of hours care and safe spaces, February 2025
• Interface Guidance, November 2024
• Integrated Care Models Event, August 2024
• Protocol Programme Launch Event, March 2024

The peer network is available to access via MS Teams and is open to those who are taking a lead role in implementing local protocols across mental health and substance use services.

Request to join the peer network here

This may include people in roles such as:

• mental health and substance use integration leads
• team leads/service managers of mental health and substance use services
• clinicians involved in developing interface guidance or delivering services.

We hold regular workshops to explore topics of interest to you and your work and all resources from these are shared on MS Teams, along with resources and tools to help you develop your local protocols, and materials from learning events.

Read the summary reports from our recent peer network workshops below:

Peer Network: Workshop 1

Peer Network: Workshop 2

Peer Network: Workshop 3

Peer Network: Workshop 4

Peer Network: Workshop 5

Led by clinicians, these events create a space to discuss challenging issues, learn from each other and build a community of practice interested in providing comprehensive care for people with concurrent mental health and substance use challenges. 

• A Biopsychosocial Approach to the Four Quadrants, July 2025
• Responding to stimulant use, December 2024
• Caring for co-occurring conditions, October 2024
• Presentations of Concern Personality Disorder with Concurrent Substance Use, November 2023
• Maintaining compassion, September 2023
• Differential Diagnoses: Alcohol Related Brain Injury, July 2023
• Mental health crises with co-occurring substance use with the Mental Health Paramedic Response Unit, December 2022

Visit the case studies and resources page to access materials we have developed. These include:

• Overview report: Lived experience engagement
• Case study: Integrating psychology into homelessness services)
• Case studies: Community Mental Health Team’s roles in supporting mental health and substance use concerns
• Case studies: The development of local interface guidance
• Examples: Local Interface Guidance Documents, and
• Tool: Self-reflection against the national mental health and substance use protocol.