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This review explores the concept of person-centred care, giving particular attention to its application in mental health and its relationship to recovery. It then outlines a framework for understanding the variety of approaches that have been used to operationalize person-centred care, focusing particularly on shared decision-making and self-directed care, two practices that have significant implications for mental health internationally. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
People with severe mental illness suffer more physical comorbidity than the general population, which can require a tailored approach to physical health care discussions within mental health care planning. Although evidence pertaining to service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning is accumulating, current understanding of how physical health is prioritised within this framework is limited. Understanding stakeholder experiences of physical health discussions within mental health care planning, and the key domains that underpin this phenomena is essential to improve quality of care. Our study aimed to explore service user, carer and professional experiences of and preferences for service user and carer involvement in physical health discussions within mental health care planning, and develop a conceptual framework of effective user-led involvement in this aspect of service provision based on clients, carers & staff at a mental health trust in Manchester.
Previous research into improving patient safety has emphasised the importance of responding to and learning from concerns raised by service users and carers. Expertise gained by the experiences of service users and their carers has also been seen as a potential resource to improve patient safety. We know little about the ease of raising concerns within mental health services, and the potential benefits of involving service users and carers in safety interventions. This study aimed to explore service user and carer perceptions of raising safety concerns, and service user, carer and health professional views on the potential for service user and carer involvement in safety interventions.
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KMPTs Peer Support Lead Natalie Livesey was invited to present at the ImROC Peer support critical debate conference by ImROC Programme Director, Dr Julie Repper. Natalie talks about the importance of the experience and how it has helped her and the peer support team realise they are ahead of the game.
"Having worked closely with Dr Repper on producing a Peer Support training package and meeting one another at various other conferences, Julie explained how she had been impressed with the way in which KMPT has embedded the Peer Support Workforce and was equally encouraged by the investment given into nurturing such a unique set of expertise. I was kindly offered the opportunity by Julie to attend the conference in Nottingham and share our ‘journey of achieving critical mass’ with the other delegates.
Learning disability services must include the people who use them (individuals and their families/carers) in service commissioning, planning and delivery (Department of Health 2012. Transforming care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital. Department of Health review: Final report). One group of important stakeholders in learning disability services are the family members and carers of people with a learning disability. The aim of this study was to explore how family members experienced their involvement with one Assessment and Treatment Unit, with a view to shaping future service developments.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
‘Progress through Partnership’, a new report released today by Rethink Mental Illness, has revealed that the majority of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) do not have clear plans in place for involving people with experience of mental illness in the design and commissioning of mental health services, also known as “co-production”
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Presentation from NHS Transformathon. We know the perspectives and knowledge of patients and service users are an important resource for those involved in the design and delivery of services. The NHS Five Year Forward View rightly calls for a new relationship with patients, citizens and communities but what that new relationship looks like and how this might happen is less clear.
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Research findings have consistently found that service users are not involved in care planning, despite mental health policy that advocates a collaborative process and evidence that involvement facilitates recovery (Department of Health, 2011; Department of Health, 2008; Bee et al, 2015b).
Furthermore, there is a knowledge gap between what the authors describe as the ‘more nebulous ‘top-down” concepts of user involvement as advocated in policy documents, and the potential for service users to exert influence at the individual care planning level. It is this gap that the research reported here by Grundy et al (2016) aimed to address: what does ‘user-involved’ care planning look like?
The study is one part of a bigger programme of research looking at service user involvement in mental health care planning (EQUIP). This paper reports on the findings from focus groups and interviews with service users; other papers produced by the team report on professional (Bee et al, 2015a) and carer (Cree et al, 2015) perspectives.
Service data indicates that from a sample of 102 service users 80.4% had their families involved in their care.
In line with offering a combined healthy eating and physical activity programme the service is also piloting the Supporting Health and Promoting Exercise (SHAPE) physical health intervention programme, which uses the expertise of nutritionists, exercise physiologists and health trainers. It is a structured and intensive 12-week course with follow-up over 12 months, which includes a group educational programme and individually tailored exercises sessions.