The group aims to: • seek a coordinated approach to mental health issues and contributions to the NPM agenda and business plan; • enable a peer-review approach to identification of development areas and improvement processes; • share information on the work of the NPM bodies and increase transparency of each other’s organisational approach to mental health monitoring; • offer members access to specialist knowledge; • provide an opportunity to discuss crossborder issues and implications for members; • identify possibilities for sharing resources for research, training and development, such as conferences, seminars, e-learning; • identify common issues and interests; • discuss benchmarking possibilities to support the available evidence-base for local policy and intelligence. 4. Term and review procedures The NPM steering group will review the effectiveness and purpose of the sub-group after the initial three meetings, then annually thereafter, to ensure continuing relevance and ongoing development of the mental health network sub-group of the UK NPM. The next review is due in March 2016. Approved by the MH network members: 10 March 2015 72