National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units
NAPICU’s key aims are to advance psychiatric intensive care and low secure services, improve mechanisms for the delivery of psychiatric intensive care, audit effectiveness and to promote research, education and practice development within the speciality. It runs a discussion board on its website.

Institute for Mental Health Act Practitioners
The Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners, founded in 1990 as the Association of Mental Health Act Administrators, has a diverse membership that reflects the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working within mental health today. It runs a forum on its website.

Offender Health Research Network
The Offender Health Research Network (OHRN), funded by Offender Health at the Department of Health, is a collaboration between several universities, based at the University of Manchester. If you sign up as a member of the network you can get in touch with other network members.