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10 top tips for commissioners: commissioning Independent Mental Health Advocacy services in England
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 6
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing provides 10 top tips designed to help commissioners to provide good quality Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) services. The tips cover: understanding the role and responsibilities of IMHA; co-production; strategic needs assessment and asset mapping; outcome-based commissioning, quality and cost; meeting diverse needs; engaging with IMHA providers; IMHA and other forms of advocacy; non-instructed advocacy; out of area placements; and links with health service commissioners. (Edited publisher abstract)
Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
A suite of 12 resources which includes short films, reports, at a glance summaries and tools on Independent Mental Health Advocacy. The resources aim to raise awareness and understanding of the IMHA role amongst service users and mental health staff; improve access IMHA, help providing an understand what a good service looks like, and how outcomes can be measured. The resources have been produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence in partnership with The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston. (Edited publisher abstract)
The role of advice services in health outcomes: evidence review and mapping study
- Authors:
- PARKINSON Andy, BUTTRICK Jamie
- Publisher:
- Consilium Research and Consultancy
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 97
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Evidence review, undertaken through a joint project between the Low Commission and the Advice Services Alliance, to examine the impact of social welfare advice services on health outcomes. The review outlines key findings from 140 research studies and also provides an overview of 58 integrated health and welfare advice services. Advice services covered in the review included those providing advice on debts, welfare benefits, housing, employment and discrimination advice. The results of the evidence review are discussed across the following areas: health inequalities; debt and mental health; primary care; secondary and tertiary care, including mental health services. The analysis finds that welfare advice provided in health context results in better individual health and well-being and lower demand for health services. Positive effects on health and welbeing include: lower stress and anxiety, better sleeping patterns, more effective use of medication, smoking cessation, and improved diet and physical activity. It shows how the right welfare advice in the right place produces real benefits for patient health especially where advice services work directly with the NHS and care providers, and presents evidence to show that early and effective advice provision reduces demand on the NHS. It provides recommendations for NHS, Local Authority Commissioners, Health and Wellbeing Boards, and the advice sector for the use welfare advice services to improve health outcomes, address health inequalities and reduce demand on the NHS. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disabilities: positive practice guide
- Authors:
- DAGNAN Dave, et al
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guide provides information on how to best support people with learning disabilities to access their local Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. It is aimed at those who work in, commission, or refer to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. The guide outlines the reasonable adjustments that are recommended to ensure that people with learning disabilities get the maximum benefit from treatment within an IAPT service. Areas discussed include: service models, changes to referral and access pathways; screening; adjustments to mainstream IAPT pathways; assessment; adaptations to treatment and interventions; and making information accessible. Practical examples are included to show how some teams have made reasonable adjustments to support access to IAPT service. The guide also covers the importance of training and developing the workforce and provides key points for commissioners of IAPT services consider to ensure that mainstream services effectively meet the needs of people with learning disabilities. (Edited publisher abstract)
A briefing for commissioners: what survivors of violence and abuse say about mental health services: REVA briefing 4
- Authors:
- SCOTT Sara, et al
- Publishers:
- DMSS Research and Consultancy, NatCen Social Research, London Metropolitan University, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, Truth
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
One of five briefing paper presenting findings from the Department of Health funded REVA study, which looked at responding effectively to the needs of survivors of violence and abuse who are also mental health service users. The briefing focusses on the links between experience of abuse and mental health and the implications this has for commissioners to create an effective service. It presents information drawn from interviews with 21 mental health service users who had experienced domestic and/or sexual violence. It reports on their views and experience of mental health services and what they thought were the key elements of a good service. Five core components that were considered essential for effective support include: routine enquiry across a range of child and adult settings; well trained staff who are able to make referrals to specialist services; availability of group and peer support; non-hospital based crisis provision; and integrated coordinated services. Implications for commissioners of mental health services are also listed. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supporting people with a learning disability and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges, including those with a mental health condition: service model for commissioners of health and social care services
- Authors:
- NHS ENGLAND, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publishers:
- NHS England, Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 41
- Place of publication:
- London
This service model brings together good practice taking place in local areas to describe what good services should look like for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges. It covers all aspects of commissioning: strategic, operational and individual/micro commissioning. The model is organised around nine principles from the perspective of the people using services. These are: a good and meaningful life; person-centred care and support; choice and control; support for family carers and care staff; choice of housing; good health care; access to specialist community health and social care; getting support in staying out of trouble when at risk of being in contact with the criminal justice system; and having access to high quality assessment and treatment in a hospital setting where necessary. The model gives people a clear picture of what they can expect from the services they use. It also allows those designing and commissioning services flexibility to ensure services work for local areas. The new model, which was co-produced by people using services, commissioners and health and social care system leaders, has been finalised using the feedback from early implementation by six ‘fast track’ areas. (Edited publisher abstract)
Building the right support: a national plan to develop community services and close inpatient facilities for people with learning disability...including those with a mental health condition
- Authors:
- NHS ENGLAND, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publishers:
- NHS England, Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 56
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out a national plan to enable people with learning disabilities who display behaviour that challenges to be supported to live more independently in their local community and reduce reliance on institutional care and long stay hospitals. The plan looks at the learning from the six 'fast track' areas; describes the new services that will be needed to better support people with learning disabilities to live in the community; and outlines how transforming care partnerships (commissioning collaborations of local authorities, CCGs and NHS England partners) in health and care will need to work together to deliver these changes. Areas discussed include: the need for appropriate local housing, such as schemes where people have their own home but ready access to on-site support staff; an expansion of the use of personal budgets, enabling people and their families to plan their own care, beyond those who already have a legal right to them; for people to have access to a local care and support navigator or key worker; and investment in advocacy and advice services run by local charities and voluntary organisations. To achieve the shift from inpatient to community-based services the plan identifies three key changes: that local councils and NHS bodies will join together to deliver better and more coordinated services; pooled budgets between the NHS and local councils to ensure the right care is provided in the right place; and adoption of a new service model. (Edited publisher abstract)