Secondary Care Working Group
Next Secondary Care Working Group Meeting:
Date: Thursday 16th September 2010
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Venue: Hackney LINk
Unit A (1st Floor) Ment House,
1B Mentmore Terrace
Hackney
London E8 3DQ
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The agenda for this meeting will be available soon.
Working Group Members:
- Neil Faulkner (Chair - temporary)
- Michael Vidal
- Neil Thomas
- Ida Scoullos
Overall aim of the Secondary Care Working Group
Improving mental health services through better care planning and ensuring that there is not over-representation of certain communities within the system.
The Aims of the Group
- To examine the Care Plan Approach within Secondary Care.
- To ensure the full involvement of service users in creating care plans and subsequent reviews.
- The Care Plan Approach produced and the subsequent care pathway is integrated across all care providers leading to recovery for patients.
- To explore whether certain ethnic-groups are over-represented in the mental health care system.
Secondary Care Working Group Minutes
Secondary Care Working Group Blog
Working Group Update
26th January 2010
My name is Neil Faulkner and along with my colleagues Michael Vidal and Neil Thomas we represent the secondary care working group of Hackney Link. We took a view that it would be more constructive to concentrate on one particular area of secondary care namely mental health in the borough of Hackney. We chose this specific area of secondary care services because it is often the most neglected and under funded given the deep social stigma still attached to mental illness.
We want to establish what policies are in place to create a more positive and less prejducial attitude to mental illness in the local community. In particular we want to find out how integrated the existing provisions are for people suffering from mental illness and whether they can be improved. It would be very interesting to discover how far patients are encouraged to be involved in their individual care, treatment and outcomes. To this end we would like to hear from residence in Hackney of their experiences of and views on the provision of mental health care in the borough.
As an example of the above at a meeting of the LINk held on the 15th of December last year it was suggested that an on- line directory of mental health therapies available in Hackney be produced. Such a directory did exist at one time but that was before universal access to the internet. This idea was something the members were keen for us to explore.
Neil Faulkner