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How do we get from here to there?
- Author:
- TAYLOR Ben
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(1), February 2008, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Modernising and restructuring of mental health day services presents a huge challenge to trusts and commissioners. This article is based on the findings of a recent day services review undertaken by the National Social Inclusion Programme (NSIP), which focuses on some of the issues commonly arising in the restructuring process, and approaches to addressing them. One of the key factors identified was the involvement of current and potential service users. The article also includes examples from East Surrey and Brighton and Hove of how they approached restructuring their services.
Mental health day services in the United Kingdom from 1946 to 1995: an 'untidy set of services'
- Author:
- BRYANT Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(12), December 2011, pp.554-561.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This critical review of mental health day services in the United Kingdom from the 1940s was conducted to inform local responses to modernisation. A wide range of contemporary and retrospective published accounts was critically analysed. The findings indicate that since the first reported mental health day hospital opened in 1946, researchers and practitioners have described and evaluated the services. Service users have been encouraged to define their own goals and used a variety of approaches to achieve them. The importance of social contact, structured occupations and community links has been emphasised throughout. Locations and functions of day services have shifted in response to health and social care policies, yet have consistently engaged and been valued by service users. Criticisms have indicated issues of insufficient resources and too broad a remit, making services difficult to categorise and evaluate systematically. Tensions throughout have been concerned with the location of services and the scope for user involvement in service provision and evaluation. Recognising the origins of these tensions could enhance current approaches to modernisation. The article concludes that combining social and occupational perspectives would enhance understanding and indicate future directions for day services.
Engaging users: the essence of the therapeutic community approach
- Authors:
- HYDE K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 26(3), Autumn 2005, pp.261-272.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the clinical orientation of a community-based service provided to a large geographical region, developed by staff who had established Webb House, a residential therapeutic community replicating the Henderson approach. Responding to changes in commissioning arrangements, the service further developed its community-based approach reflecting recommended practice in 'No Longer a Diagnosis of Exclusion' published by NIMHE. It considers the developmental process through which a 'user' becomes a 'service user consultant' and their potential to intervene in a dyadic relationship to support engagement. The potential of user consultants is described. The development of a user-led professionally facilitated organisation that supports joint working of users with professionals and provides a forum for users supporting their continuing development is considered.
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)
An evaluation of mental health service user involvement in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a Sainsbury Centre evaluation report on the process of involving people who use services in the re-commissioning of their day and vocational services. This report provides insight into what worked during re-commissioning day and vocational services, and should help anyone wishing to embark on the re-commissioning of day and vocational services in their own area. The service users remit included: contributing to the design of the review; conducting research including interviews with other service users; contributing to decisions on service redesign in light of the review findings; having input into the development of service specifications for the new configuration; participating in selecting future providers through the tendering process. This report examines feature that worked well with the service users, and featured that did not work so well, and makes suggestions for future service user involvement, such as greater clarity of purpose, more attention to detail, more openness, and issues relating to conflict management and resolution.
The Four Clover Club - struggles and successes of a user-led organisation
- Author:
- WEEKS Alex
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 4(3), August 2000, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
User-led organisations are increasingly providing services themselves, but it is not always easy to overcome the barriers of bureaucracy and officialdom when you are inexperienced in project development. This is an account of the trials, tribulations and eventual success of a group of users in rural Dorset, who are keen to use their newly acquired experienced for the benefit of others who may want to do the same.
Modernising day services in Birmingham: taking service users with us
- Authors:
- THAKOORDIN Jane, Rosina, Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 14(2), May 2010, pp.20-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper describes the recent modernisation of Birmingham City Council’s adult day services, due to a change in national social policy and a City Cabinet Committee report. The role played in reshaping practices, by a range of innovative approaches to service user consultation about the proposed closure of day centres as social care provision venues to be replaced by ‘user-led social support resource hubs’, with the aim to provide more personalised services, based on maintenance, or regaining normal, neighbourhood lives within local communities, is discussed. The first of three rounds of consultation, contracted out to a voluntary sector organisation with shared experience of mental health problems, involved service users as facilitators, in an attempt to ensure free expression of user views. Workshops and focus groups, in people’s first (community) languages, women, black and minor ethnic people only sessions were run. The pathway approach to person-centred planning, starting with users’ views of ideal day care and working backwards listing the essential steps and contributions of participants, often produced innovation. Those most against change jointly worked with those already managing their own projects and budgets. Audi-visual media and the Support, Time and Recovery (STAR) model were used with success. The lead author was joined by two service users, Rosina and Elaine, who were also carer/volunteers in writing the text.
Speaking up, speaking out - involving users in day services
- Author:
- ROSS Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 1 1994, 1994, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
A reduction in the role of local government as the primary provider of health and social services, including community care throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s has been matched by increasing support for the informal, voluntary and private sectors. The shift of responsibility from public to private has been promoted through a movement towards a mixed economy of care, which advocates increased quality and choice for users, as defined by users. The author's study looks at how three user groups - people with physical disabilities, people with mental health problems, and people with learning difficulties are being encouraged to have a voice in service planning and delivery of services across three local authority areas in the West Midlands.
The Kirklees study of good practices in mental health 1992
- Author:
- GOOD PRACTICES IN MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Good Practices in Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide to local "good practices" in the Kirklees area compiled from the perceptions of service users and providers.