TY - JOUR AV - public IS - 1 A1 - Foye, Una A1 - Appleton, Rebecca A1 - Nyikavaranda, Patrick A1 - Lyons, Natasha A1 - Dare, Ceri A1 - Lynch, Chris A1 - Persaud, Karen A1 - Ahmed, Nafiso A1 - Stuart, Ruth A1 - Schlief, Merle A1 - Huong, Xia A1 - Sevdalis, Nick A1 - Sheridan-Rains, Luke A1 - Rojas-Garcia, Antonio A1 - Stefan, Martin A1 - Clark, Jeremy A1 - Simpson, Alan A1 - Johnson, Sonia A1 - Lloyd-Evans, Brynmor N2 - BACKGROUND: Mental health acute and crisis care consumes a large share of mental health budgets internationally but is often experienced as unsatisfactory and difficult to access. As a result, there is an increasing move towards developing innovative community crisis services, to improve patient experience and relieve pressure on inpatient and emergency services. This study aims to understand what helps and hinders the implementation of innovative mental health crisis care projects in England. METHODS: Using a qualitative approach, 18 interviews were conducted with crisis care service managers exploring their experiences and views of the development and implementation of their service developed with support from an English national capital funding programme. A framework analysis was conducted informed by implementation science. RESULTS: Key facilitators to implementation of innovative crisis services included bottom-up development, service user involvement, strong collaborative working, and leadership and management buy-in. Key barriers that affected the projects implementation included the complexities of crisis care, workforce challenges and resourcing issues. CONCLUSION: There is a recognised need to improve, update, and innovate current crisis care offers. Results from this study suggest that a range of models can help address the heterogenous needs of local populations and that new approaches can be implemented where they utilise a whole-systems approach, involving service users and relevant professional stakeholders beyond mental health services in planning and developing the service. KW - Clinician KW - Crisis care KW - Qualitative KW - Staff JF - BMC Health Services Research VL - 23 TI - 'Beyond places of safety' - a qualitative study exploring the implementation of mental health crisis care innovations across England N1 - © 2023 BioMed Central Ltd. his article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ID - discovery10179598 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10058-w Y1 - 2023/// ER -