Professionals and Practitioners

Joint Mental Health Commissioning Strategy informal consultation

This consultation has now closed

Closing date: 26th February 2009

Outcomes from the Joint Mental Health Strategy informal consultation

 

Background information

Since 1999 mental health services for adults of working age have been commissioned separately by the PCT and Adult Services in line with the National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health. Now concluded, the NSF has seen the development of many new services to support people with all types and severity of mental health problems.

Local picture

Adult Services and NHS Hampshire Mental Health Commissioners are now developing a Joint Commissioning Strategy based on the requirements of the NSF and the aspirations of ‘New Horizons: Towards a Shared Vision for Mental Health’. It will closely link to Hampshire’s Older Person’s Mental Health Strategy and Health and Wellbeing Strategy and reflect the aspirations in the Hampshire Model devised following the Hampshire Commission on Personalisation.

Key principles in the strategy

  • service user & carer involvement in all aspects of commissioning & provision
  • mental health promotion and public mental health
  • personalised care; recovery based and embracing diversity
  • social inclusion – access to everyday activities, services and support
  • challenge to stigma and discrimination
  • early intervention
  • assessment & treatment of common mental health problems in primary care
  • safe services
  • access to appropriate services, such as in-patient, crisis teams, assertive outreach and community mental health teams
  • support to carers
  • strengthening of transition arrangements
  • value for money, innovation, multi-agency co-operation

Why the strategy is so important

Mental ill-health touches most people in society: 1 in 6 adults will have a mental health problem at any one time and the economic cost to the country of mental health problems is about £77 billion, mostly due to lost productivity. People with mental health problems die younger, up to 25 years earlier and are more likely to develop strokes and coronary heart disease before the age of 55 than any other group in society.

Engaging people for their views

To obtain views from a wide range of people about what works, what is missing and what needs changing to ensure choice and quality services, we held an Engagement Event on 8th October 2009. For people unable to attend, a consultation pack for use in groups will be available shortly with an electronic version for individuals to complete. We have also commissioned raise! Mental Health Ltd to visit services and other groups to gather further information.

We are also collecting information about needs and demographic data all of which will be collated into a draft strategy next year. There will then be a formal consultation process to ensure that we have accurately captured what people have said to us. This will take place during summer 2010, with formal sign off to the strategy in December 2010, allowing implementation in 2011.

You can download the following

There is a more detailed consultation pack available that has been designed to gather the views of groups of service users specifically. If you would like this information please contact Hermoine Wildey on; 01962 846357 or by email AdultMentalHealthstrategy@hants.gov.uk