The Mental Health Clustering Tool is a core component of Mental Health Payment by Results (PbR) . The tool is fully described in the Clustering Handbook, which forms part of the mental health PbR package for 2013-14. This package can be found on PbR pages of the DH website.
The purpose of the tool is to assess a service users needs and guide clinicians to allocate the service user to 1 of 21 clusters which will be used to define the best package of care to meet the needs of the service user.