As part of a 3-year transformation process for Community Mental Health Services, we are implementing nationally recommend Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS).
These measures are designed to help patients and practitioners understand the impact that support, care and treatment are having on patients’ mental health and wellbeing. Whilst the measures have been set based on national guidance, we want to understand how these can be implemented in the most meaningful and accessible way possible for patients which is where we need your help.
If you have accessed Community Mental Health Services in the last 2 years or haven’t engaged with services until crisis point, we would love you to become involved to share your experience and to help shape how we put in place the measures moving forwards.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Community Mental Health Transformation Group when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
The EIP service value your thoughts and ideas around areas that may affect your recovery. We have an opportunity to come together with fellow people who use the service and colleague to help shape and improve the care and support we provide.
To get involved in this project you must currently be a patient of the EIP service.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: EIP Involvement Group when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
We would like to invite both individuals, who access our service, and their loved ones to have their say on our service. This event aims to provide people with an opportunity to share their experiences, discuss their thoughts and feelings and offer valuable feedback. We would like to use this feedback to help us make changes and develop our service.
This event is open to all ages from both CAMHS and Adult services.
For those wishing to attend who are under the age of 18 please note that a parent or guardian (over 18 years) needs to attend the event with you.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Eating Disorder Service - Listening Event when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
The Patient Information Group is comprised of Involvement Partners and works closely with staff from around the Trust. The purpose of the group is to review, and co-design literature that is produced by the Trust to give information about health related matters. There are four strands to this group and each strand meets once every 4 weeks.
The strands are:
You are welcome to get involved with all four strands should you wish; however, the Carers Information is specifically for those who undertake a carer role for a loved one or friend.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Patient Information Group when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
The Story Shop is for people with lived experience and carers to share their story with medical students (Junior Doctors) to give them a more realistic understanding of mental health and the factors affecting it. This helps to contribute to their training and education as well as an opportunity to challenge some of the stigma around the topic of mental health. Story Shop Involvement Partners are asked to tell their story to small groups of students as part of their training and answer any questions from that group. The session is a structured part of the medical student’s educational course and has a direct influence on junior medical colleague and professionals entering the healthcare field. We are currently looking to increase the amount of people sharing their stories and would like to invite those with the following experience to join us:
Please note that to participate you could be the patient who has experienced any of these services, but also you may be the carer/parent of someone who has. Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Story Shop when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
The groups purpose is to provide some lived experience to discussions about the Older People's Mental Health Services (MHSOP). This could be experience of yourself or a friend or family member.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group(entering the title: MHSOP Involvement Group when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
At Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, we value the voice of service users and carers / family members and friends in the recruitment of colleagues.
You will receive some basic instructions on how the recruitment process works within the Trust.
You will receive some basic instructions on how the recruitment process works within the Trust.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Interview Panel when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
The Carers Connect Network (CCN) is a forum for carers, families, friends, colleagues and partnership organisations who work with carers. We always welcome new carers getting involved either at the meetings every other month and/or by responding to and being aware of opportunities. The CCN aims to improve how the Trust involves, supports and communicates with carers. It’s a chance to influence how we work together, get involved in projects, add your voice and share good practice or just hear the latest news.
For more information see our support for carer's page .
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Carer's Connect Network when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
The Parent and Carer Involvement Group is an online platform that parents and carers can join to share their voices about the local Children and Young People’s Health Services. The sessions are online and last up to one hour.
It is an opportunity to share your experiences of Children and Young People’s Health Services and to use your experiences to help us to improve services. You can also help develop new ideas for Children and Young People’s Health Services. This might include helping to create resources and information (e.g. service leaflets or videos) so that they are useful to parents and carers. You could also be offered the opportunity to sit on staff recruitment panels if you would like to, and would receive some training and information to help you to feel confident to do this.
Why might a parent/carer want to join the group?
This is a great opportunity to meet new people and build your confidence in talking to others. Your voice matters to Nottinghamshire Healthcare, and you can influence changes within services and resources aimed at families, children and young people.
Who can join the group?
Anyone aged 18 years of age and over, who is a parent or carer of a child or young person who have had experience of Children and Young People Health Services provided by Nottinghamshire Healthcare. These may include: Health Visitors, School Nurses, Speech and Language Services, Physiotherapy, Occupational Health, Youth Justice, CAMHS etc.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Parent and Carer Involvement Group when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
Why do we need you?
We need to ensure that our involvement and communication with Carers (and Families) of the patients and people who use our services grows and improves across all the services and support we offer.
As a Triangle of Care Peer review, you will be providing feedback and observations of the self-assessment our service teams have undertaken to support them making positive steps to develop and grow their inclusive approach to involving and communicating better with carers.
What will you be doing
This role will suit you if
What you can expect from us
What we need from you
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title: Triangle of Care - Peer Reviewer when asked).
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part.
Why do we need you?
We are transforming our community mental health services and as part of this we want to review how we make sure that everybody gets the right care, in the right place to meet their needs. We want to work with people with lived experience to design the letters and information that we send to patients and GP's when a patient is discharged from one of our services, or when we are unable to meet the patients needs in secondary care. We want to ensure that we provide the right information to support the patients in the next step of their recovery journey. This might be general advice or signposting to additional support services.
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title 'Patient Letters' when asked)
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part
Why do we need you?
The aim of the meeting is to improve how we plan care together with service users and carers. We will be looking to:
We are undertaking this work because there is a lack of consistency in a number of areas around how we plan care with people resulting in care not being consistently delivered effectively with patients and carers.
Expectations:
Click here if you would like register as an involvement partner or to join this group (entering the title 'Improving how we plan care together' when asked)
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part
The Medical Education Team have just started producing short podcast episodes (about 15mins). Working with the Communications team we have started uploading them to Spotify, and making them available. The podcast is titled ‘Thoughts and All’. The original idea was to cover bitesize parts of medical student and junior doctor training i.e. how to take a risk assessment, what is a mental state exam, what is capacity etc.
One of the episodes we would like to make is a perspective on tribunals within mental health inpatient settings (challenging a section). Having the perspective of a person who has a lived experience of a Tribunal the process and the impact of this on the patient or carer. We would like to hear, what was good, what was bad.
To be part of this piece of work you need agreement of the following:
Title: Thoughts and All Medical Education Podcase
How/When: to be confirmed
Who runs the group: Jonathan Wright, Julie Rastall and Joshua Bachra
If you are already registered, then please contact involve@nottshc.nhs.uk to confirm you would like to take part