Mental Health

As a component of contract schedules, Quality and Innovation Incentives (CQUIN) have encouraged Mental Health Trusts to think more innovatively about how they can improve upon the delivery of holistic services and pathways of care.

In support of the Dementia QIPP and in line with recommendations from the Dementia Strategy, local commissioning from a North West CCG had identified investment for the implementation of ‘Care Navigators’ who would advocate for people with a newly confirmed diagnosis of dementia and their carers and help people to navigate their way through a very difficult and challenging period in their lives.

In addition to policy implementation, delivering good practice also includes the development of effective multi-agency partnership working and joint proposals for the provision of services that are accessible and age appropriate. The development of a joint protocol between A North West Mental Health and Childrens Trust supporting transitional arrangements for adolescents to adult services emphasised [...]

As Commissioners and Mental Health Trusts await the implementation of the new payment mechanism to replace existing contractual arrangements, organisations outside of the NHS such as Private Sector providers and the Pharmaceutical Industry, are left wondering how this will affect them.

‘Who is responsible for…?’ and ‘Am I responsible for…?’ are questions that arise frequently in mental health care. As questions, they seem straightforward enough, but further consideration reveals the complexity that can underlie them. New Ways of Working (NWW) is about the development and maintenance of multi-disciplinary creative, capable teams working with efficient processes to [...]

The Adult Services Directorate within Liverpool City Council proposes to 'set the scene' of the future direction of travel for Liverpool Adult Services to all service providers to encourage providers to think about their role in delivering social care and how they might strategically position themselves to manage external change to meet the challenges of [...]

JMB Health Consultancy has recently been commissioned by a large Mental Health Trust to assess and undertake Consultant caseload evaluations in the context of key policy drivers for Mental Health Services

We have recently completed an extensive and evaluative review of 'Adult Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder (AADHD) Services' on behalf of the award-winning Mersey Care NHS Trust.