We are working closely with fellow NHS organisations, local authorities, voluntary and community organisations and people with lived experience to transform the way adult community mental health care and support is delivered locally.

The transformation forms part of a national programme set out in the NHS Long Term Plan to enable adults with severe mental illness to access services in a new, more joined up and effective way, regardless of their diagnosis or level of complexity.

This is about offering flexible and personalised care and support that responds to a person’s mental health needs and preferences close to home, while also increasing support for the wider factors that can impact someone’s wellbeing, such as employment, housing and physical health.

To do this, partners are working together more closely than ever before, based within networks of local GP practices (known as Primary Care Networks).

NHS England has developed the following short animation that provides a helpful explanation of how this transformation will happen.

MPFT is a leading partner in the transformation in Southern Staffordshire (as part of the wider Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent programme) and Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin – click below to find out more about how you can get involved in these areas.

Are you a user of mental health services, a carer or someone with an interest in mental health? Would you like to help shape the way community mental health services are delivered locally? If so, we would love to hear from you as those who use our services and their carers are at the heart of this transformation.

Here are some of the ways that you can get involved:

  • Bring a lived experience perspective to represent people who use our services and their carers
  • Changing how we communicate and engage with people
  • Being involved in designing services
  • Help  recruit the right staff to help you
  • Planning and delivering workshops

Please note that travel expenses will be reimbursed. You may be offered an involvement fee.

If you'd like to get involved, you can fill out this online form, or to find out more and to get involved email MH-Transformation@mpft.nhs.uk

Stay up to date with how we’re transforming mental health services

For news, information, links to podcasts, social media and other details relating to work taking place in the south of Staffordshire, visit Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board | South Staffordshire Adult Community Mental Health Transformation

Are you a user of mental health services, a carer or someone with an interest in mental health? Would you like to help shape the way community mental health services are delivered locally? If so, we would love to hear from you as those who use our services and their carers are at the heart of this transformation.

To find out more and to get involved email CMHTransformationSTW@mpft.nhs.uk

Stay up to date with how we’re transforming mental health services

To view updates on how we’re transforming mental health services in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin visit Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Integrated Care System | Community Mental Health Transformation

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