Skilled professionals concentrated in hospitals and at present information sharing is usually informal and through colleagues. Mechanisms to promote knowledge sharing, the definition of a good patient treatment pathway, and data systems to share patient information could be promoted. The involvement of users of mental health services in policy making and service governance, both due to a legal obligation (Mental Health Act, 1999) and an apparent genuine and quite widespread conviction in the importance of the involvement of service users, is one of Norway’s great strengths.