Nottinghamshire Healthcare is one of only four NHS Trusts to be selected as national demonstration sites as part of a project to enhance support to people with mental health problems to lead meaningful and productive lives; a concept known as Recovery.
The project, Supporting Recovery, is delivered by a partnership of the NHS Confederation, the Centre for Mental Health (formerly the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health) and the National Mental Health Development Unit. It uses methodology developed by the Centre for Mental Health based on structured self-assessment, goal setting, implementation and review in relation to ten challenges which organisations wishing to implement Recovery are advised to address.
As a designated demonstration site, Nottinghamshire Healthcare has been assessed as already having strategies in place to address these challenges and recognised as a provider of Recovery focused mental health services with the knowledge and experience to support other Trusts to do the same.
The ten organisational challenges are:
1. Changing the nature of day-to-day interactions and the quality of experience
2. Delivering comprehensive user-led education and training programmes
3. Establishing a ‘Recovery Education Centre’ to drive the programmes forward
4. Ensuring organisational commitment, creating the ‘culture’; the importance of leadership
5. Increasing personalisation and choice
6. Changing processes for risk assessment and management
7. Redefining service user involvement
8. Transforming the workforce
9. Supporting staff in their recovery journeys
10. Increasing opportunities for building life ‘beyond illness’
As part of the programme, the Trust will partake in learning sets led by expert consultants and peer trainers, to share ideas and further the transformation of services into positive, strengths based, Recovery focused facilities, working in partnership with local communities.
Julie Repper, Recovery Lead for Nottinghamshire Healthcare said: “We are delighted to be awarded demonstration site status as it recognises the progress we have already made in incorporating the Recovery principles into everything we do. However, we can always do better with more innovative and effective ways of working and are looking forward to developing Recovery focused approaches further to provide an improved service and significant benefits to those people who use our services.”
The Supporting Recovery project will run until December 2012.
Demonstration Days
The Trust held its first Recovery Demonstration Day on 25 July 2011. Two further events are planned for:
12 October 2011 and 28 February 2012
Both events will be held at Highbury Hospital in Bulwell. For further details contact the team on 0115 8760 124.
The three documents from the Trust's Recovery Pack are available to download below, as well as a copy of the Trust's Recovery Strategy. Find out more about the Trust's new Recovery Education Centre.
