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You don't know like I know
- Author:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2008, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author argues for a rewriting of the national occupational standards for mental health workers to recognise the primacy of service user knowledge.
What about me?
- Authors:
- RING Chris, WATKINS Jonathon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.10.00, 2000, p.24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors argues that, to be effective, quality assurance programmes must involve mental health clients more fully in decisions about the organisation of their care.
How users can shape services
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(2), December 1994, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
People with mental health problems are more likely to receive individualised services if they are able to be direct, suggests the author, Describes the origins of the idea and how it could be introduced in Britain.
Advocacy: a code of practice
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive. Mental Health Task Force Users Group
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive. Mental H
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 33p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Code developed using the views of users of mental health services. Draws together principles and guidelines for good practice in user group participation, in both unit and community-based users' councils and in peer advocacy who use mental health services.
Just one per cent: the experiences of people using mental health services
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Rethink regularly carries out social survey research to monitor expert opinion on standards of mental health care. The recent Our Point of View survey, upon which this report is based, asked are things getting better for the people who use mental health services, their families and friends at the beginning of the 21st Century in Britain? This report looks at what service users want in order to feel fully represented.
Lambeth joint mental health strategy: services for adults with mental health problems
- Author:
- LAMBETH. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Lambeth. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This joint strategy for adults with mental health problems was launched in April 02. The strategy sets out a clear direction for the continuing development and improvement of mental health services in Lambeth and was developed in partnership by statutory, voluntary and user organisations. The strategy is set in the context of the National Service Framework for Mental Health, the NHS Plan and the Local Modernisation Review.
User friendly
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.4.99, 1999, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how user involvement is changing the face of social care from the outside in.
Involving users and carers in shaping mental health services
- Author:
- JAMES Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Purchasing in Practice, 4, July 1995, pp.18-19.
Oxfordshire Health Authority has implemented an innovative programme to bring mental health care closer to the wishes of its users and carers. Describes progress so far.
Treated as people: an overview of mental health services from a social care perspective 2002-2004
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Key messages from the report include the following. The use of Direct Payments in supporting the independence of mental health service users and their carers is very under-developed. Numbers receiving such payments have increased, but slowly and from a very low base. Organisational change is a necessary part of the reform of mental health services. But it can easily dominate activity and dilute good services. It requires clear focus and leadership, and attention to human resources, from management capacity to the caseloads of individual team members. Reports from the local teams (LITs) implementing the National Service Framework (NSF) for mental health include much encouraging news, and indications of progress in many areas. Some good work is reported in relation to work with carers: less, in relation to culturally appropriate services for black and ethnic minority service users. From inspections there is evidence of many good, individual services promoting and supporting the social care of service users. But the coordination which would make these initiatives work together as a coherent strategy against social exclusion is often lacking. At the same time, individual, often good services targeting the employment or accommodation of service users are currently inadequate to meet demand. Meeting these needs should be a priority for councils and their partners.
Treated as people: an overview of mental health services from a social care perspective, 2002-04
- Author:
- ROBBINS Diana
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Key messages from the report include the following. The use of Direct Payments in supporting the independence of mental health service users and their carers is very under-developed. Numbers receiving such payments have increased, but slowly and from a very low base. Organisational change is a necessary part of the reform of mental health services. But it can easily dominate activity and dilute good services. It requires clear focus and leadership, and attention to human resources, from management capacity to the caseloads of individual team members. Reports from the local teams (LITs) implementing the National Service Framework (NSF) for mental health include much encouraging news, and indications of progress in many areas. Some good work is reported in relation to work with carers: less, in relation to culturally appropriate services for black and ethnic minority service users. From inspections there is evidence of many good, individual services promoting and supporting the social care of service users. But the coordination which would make these initiatives work together as a coherent strategy against social exclusion is often lacking. At the same time, individual, often good services targeting the employment or accommodation of service users are currently inadequate to meet demand. Meeting these needs should be a priority for councils and their partners.