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Together for mental health: delivery plan 2012-16
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This document presents a 10-year strategy for improving the lives of people using mental health services, their carers and their families. At the heart of the Strategy is the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010, which places legal duties on Health Boards and Local Authorities to improve support for people with mental ill-health. The main themes of Together for Mental Health are: promoting mental wellbeing and, where possible, preventing mental health problems developing; establishing a new partnership with the public, centred on improving information on mental health, increasing service user and carer involvement in decisions around their care and changing attitudes to mental health by tackling stigma and discrimination; delivering a well-designed, fully integrated network of care. This will be based on the recovery and enablement of service users in order to live as fulfilled and independent a life as possible; addressing the range of factors in people’s lives which can affect mental health and wellbeing through Care and Treatment Planning and joint-working across sectors; and identifying how the strategy will be implemented. The Strategy is focused around 6 high level outcomes and supported by a Delivery Plan. This sets out the actions the Welsh Government and partner organisations will undertake to make the Strategy’s vision a reality.
Swinging into action
- Author:
- PARTON Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, January/February 2015, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
A new approach to providing mental health recovery services in Brighton and Hove by care and support provider Southdown has helped to increase the number of people accessing services. Commissioned by Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide day services, Southdown have also established a Recovery College. The College offers service users courses in subjects such as how to manage their depression, live with their voices, or to get the best out of their medication. They have also looked to bring in 'experts by experience' to deliver its recovery services. (Original abstract)
Completing the jigsaw: a service provider's response to the health needs of refugees in the London Borough of Camden
- Author:
- PALMER David
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, 2(1), March 2006, pp.15-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article is concerned with strategies for combating health inequalities for refugees. It explores a service provider's (St Pancras Refugee Centre) response to the mental health and social care needs of refugees in the London Borough of Camden. Drawing on primary and secondary research, this article presents relevant findings and theoretical discourse in this area. It also draws on the authors own experience of working with refugees, providing a holistic approach to their social care requirements and also highlights areas of good practice. The main focus is an examination of how social care and mental health needs are addressed. The article argues that providers need to develop services which engage with users on a mutually beneficial level in order to combat health inequalities and provide adequate health and social care provision.
Think child, think parent, think family: final evaluation report
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSCOE Hannah, CONSTANT Hugh, EWART-BOYE Shirley
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The final evaluation report of the SCIE 'Think child, think parent, think family' project which aimed to help services to improve their responses to parents with mental health problems and their families. The report documents the progress made by the 10 sites involved, five in England and five in Northern Ireland, and makes recommendations for future activity. The report begins by providing background to the project and the methodology used. It then documents the learning from the sites, considering first what changes to practice have been made and how this has been achieved. Areas discussed are the strategic approaches to implementation, involving service users, workforce development, improving access to services, assessment, planning and reviewing care, and providing care. It then looks at lessons about the process of change and what has helped and hindered this. Recommendations for future work are also made. The project provided useful learning about how to implement the think family approach described in the SCIE (2009) guide. Over the course of the pilot practice sites were found to place and increasing emphasis on early intervention and prevention and progress on improving existing services and the way they work together.
Direct what?: the untapped potential of direct payments to mental health service users
- Authors:
- RIDLEY Julie, JONES Lyn
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(5), August 2003, pp.643-658.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article describes research carried out for the Central Research Unit of the Scottish Executive about Direct Payments to mental health service users including people with dementia. Previous research had found that Direct Payments were not often, if at all, offered to mental health service users. Using focus groups, interviews and a telephone survey, Scottish Health Feedback explored the extent of implementation of Direct Payments across Scotland, and the views of mental health service users, carers and professionals about the idea of Direct Payments, the potential obstacles, and the support that would be needed. Awareness of Direct Payments was low, even among professionals. Many were hearing about this option for the first time through this research and a common reaction to the research questions was 'Direct what?' The study found that in order to make Direct Payments work for mental health service users, what was needed was 'person-centred' assessment, access to proper support, advice and training, and Direct Payment schemes that were flexible to allow for different arrangements and for transitions.
Report of a clinical governance review at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
This report looks at clinical governance review at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. The first part sets out the results of the survey; the second, an analysis of the data. Topics covered: the Trust's context; service user experience; use of information; resources and processes; strategic capacity.
Information, consultation or control: User involvement in mental health services in England at the turn of the century
- Authors:
- PECK Edward, GULLIVER Pauline, TOWEL David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(4), August 2002, pp.441-451.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
A wide variety of forms of user involvement in mental health services - ranging from information through consultation to control - have arisen in England over the past 10 years. The evaluation of the creation of a joint commissioning board and a combined mental health and social care NHS Trust offered the opportunity to assess the nature and development of service user involvement in a specific English locality over a 30-month period. Data were collected using interviews with service users, senior managers and members of the joint commissioning board, a mail administered survey for staff members, and focus groups with service users, carers and staff members. Although user consultation around management and planning of services appeared to increase as a consequence of the changes, there was only one example of user control in the system, and the level of service user involvement with their own care seemed dependent on individual staff members.
Being there in a crisis: a report of the learning from eight mental health crisis services
- Editors:
- FAULKNER Alison, PETIT-ZEMAN Sophie, SHERLOCK Joanne, WALLCRAFT Jan
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation,|Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 89p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report demonstrates the value of partnerships between mental health users and providers in the development of community-based crisis services. Service users and the user movement have been calling for 24 access to care and admissions . Most of the services reported were strongly led, staffed or supported by service users or those with personal experience of crisis.