Local Involvement Scene - Service User & Carer Involvement

Within the local Mental Health Division of South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust a commitment has been made to take notice of the views of patients and carers in order to bring Service User and Carer Involvement into the mainstream of service development. Consequently, Service Users and their Carers are being encouraged and enabled to be personally involved in planning, staff recruitment, decision making and auditing of the services they receive.

There are a large group of volunteer Involvement 'Consultants' who receive on-going support. Their main role of is to work, in partnership, alongside health and social care professionals.

Service User and Carer Involvement is currently supported by a Shropshire Division, Mental Health Involvement Team based at Shelton Hospital, Shrewsbury.

Please 'Contact Us' if you would like to be 'Involved'...........

In this section

About Involvement

Who are we? What are Involvement Consultants? What's in it for me? Consultantcy Payments and travel expenses. Involvement Team. Web site team. Types of Involvement. We will be adding to this and other sections of the web site - keep checking!

Adult Inpatient Services

The place to look for information about local Adult Inpatient Services.

Community Services

Community Mental Health Teams CMHT's Assertive Outreach EIP - Early Intervention in Psychosis Psychological Therapy Eating Distress Clozapine Support WE WILL BE ADDING MORE INFORMATION AND LINKS TO THIS PART OF THE WEB SITE ............ please keep looking

Experiences of Involvement -

Service Users and Carers from our local area give their personal perpective on being an Involvement Consultant. The positive aspects ........ the difficulties ...... Why not 'Contact Us' and tell us about your experiences.

Involvement Scene Archive - older articles

Find out about the meetings we held in the past, Scroll down the list for newer articles. .................................

Involvement Support Forum

Meeting every other month we meet together, share experiences, find out about developments in local mental health services and at times ask some difficult questions of 'service managers'. Scroll down the list for the latest forum notes ............

Listening and Responding

Local services - Inpatient and Community and developing different ways of listening and responding to Service Users .......... look at the different approaches taken ........... follow the links .......

Mental Health Services - in our area

Overview of services ..... Current developments..........

Newsletter and Involvement Opportunities 2008

Links to the latest news letter ................ in the News section. Involvement Opportunies which you may be interested in. For older newsletters follow the news archive link ............... http://www.well-scrambled.co.uk/news/archive.asp

Regional and National User Involvement

A developing part of our web site. We provide brief introductions - where possible provided by those who promote Mental Health Involvement - for groups, organisations and developments which we hope will interest you. Please 'Contact Us' with suggestions to develop this part of our web site.

Services for Older People

SFOP - Older Adult community and inpatient services. We will be adding adding additional information, downloads and links to this page.

Support & Self Help Groups local to our area

Links to groups which local service users have found helpful. Have a look they may interest you.

The Foundation Trust & Local developments

This is where you can find out obout the latest developments in the South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust ........... previously this section was deveoted to articles specifically linked to the integration of services with South Staffordshire Healthcare FT. Use the link in the title banner for the Trust web site.

Trust Involvement

Trust Involvement Newsletters ' Trust Board - Involvement, sub committee. Trust Involvement 'Operational Group'. Trust Involvement Developments Use the link in the title Banner for the Trust website.

Useful Links

links for medication information web sites info about users groups etc NIMHE West Midlands and Users in Partnership (UiP) WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL RECOMMEND LINKS FOR THIS PAGE