Timescales and Basic Process of the Annual 2011/12 Finance Mapping
Main MHS Website Finance Mapping Homepage Timescales FAQ

The timescales set by the Department of Health are shown below and if adhered to, will facilitate an early production and return of both local and national reports.

Adherence to these timescales would be appreciated since delay in returning your figures inevitably has an impact on the validation process and report production. The sooner we get all the figures in.. the sooner we can get the reports out.. 
 

Timescales 2011/12 Collection
Items to be returned Completed Excel files FM-NHSLA.XLS, FM-NONSTAT.XLS and Email identifying LIT Lead for Finance Mapping
Returned Excel files should be returned normally to the LIT Lead who should then forward them on to Mental Health Strategies
When Please aim to have completed Excel files back with Mental Health Strategies by the deadline set by the Department of Health of 23rd March 2012.

If organisations have no local LIT Lead then they should submit returns directly to Mental Health Strategies using the finmap@mentalhealthstrategies.co.uk address explaining that there is no local LIT Lead in their covering email.

The Basic Process
1

Notification goes out from DH and Finance Mapping website opened for use
2

LIT Leads for Finance Mapping Register so that Mental Health Strategies knows who to liaise with and who to send the LIT Reports back to
3 Organisations download Excel files and complete them and sends them to  the LIT Lead for Finance Mapping (see note above)
4 LIT Lead sends ALL of the Excel files for their LIT to Mental Health Strategies
5 Mental Health Strategies then checks and validates the returned files for each LIT.
6 Finance Mapping database closes
7 Feedback reports to LITs prepared and distributed back to LIT Leads
8 National Report written for Department of Health
   

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