Mental Health Forum For Cowal

“It is important that the aims of the consultation process are clear and transparent to all those involved.  The partners in any particular activity should understand the reason for their involvement, the scope of the exercise, the issues to be addressed, the decision making process and the subsequent use of outcomes. Social Inclusion Involvement initiatives should [...]

The “Five” service Options which are to be concidered are listed below:-
Service options will be developed under the following headings:
1.Minimal change
2.Localised services, including in-patient beds in community hospitals
3.Flexible, central in-patient facility and enhanced community mental health service
4.Flexible, central in-patient facility (with day treatment and education centre) and enhanced community mental health service
5.No in-patient beds [...]

I would like to direct you to the page:- Local Service Provision this will help “tie in” the last few posts.

I would like to direct you to the page:-
Service “User” involvement
and then I would like to ask the question? have the Service “Users” been adequately helped to participate in the consultation process,
There have been a number of workshops which the service “users” and their carers/families have been invited to:- but have these workshops been [...]

Mental Health Service Redesign in Argyll & Bute
Clinical Service Options
Key Core Service Elements and Planning Assumptions:
The following is a list of the planning assumptions and key service elements. It lists the things that are seen as key issues that are absolute essentials to be addressed within any new service that is developed.
These have [...]

I would like to thank councilor Dick Walsh for allowing extracts of a letter sent to the Cowal Mental Health Forum in responce to a question of Service “user” involement.to be published on this site
Redesign of Mental Health Services
Thank you for your email dated 22nd July 2008 in relation to the current redesign of [...]

The Scottish Executive set out specific requirements for NHS Boards to build on existing good practice in public involvement. As such every CHP in Scotland is required to establish a Public Partnership Forum.
The Argyll & Bute PPF is made up of patients, focus groups, community groups, voluntary organisations and individual members of the public. [...]

August/September 2008
Options appraisal; which service models work best
September/October 2008
Report for public consultation to be presented to the Community Health
Partnership and Argyll and Bute Council, and then NHS Highland Board
October/November 2008
Public consultation begins see NHS HIghland web site for details

These service options will then go through an options appraisal process to
decide on the preferred options. Users, carers, staff and key stakeholders
will all be involved in the options appraisal. The process looks at the
benefits of each model, the risks in each model of it not working, the costs
and whether it represents good value for [...]

The process of redesigning mental health services in Argyll and Bute
is taking place in three phases:
1. Gathering information about current services and thoughts of how
people would like to see services change.
2. Looking in detail at future service needs and how these could be
delivered – developing a number of models of future care
3. Deciding on [...]