Working in healthcare, social care and education?
As you may already know, we’ve been having #AVeryDifferentConversation with people living and working in Suffolk since 2018.
We’ve listened to those conversations. And in collaboration with the Suffolk Mental Health Alliance, we’ve produced plans for the transformation of mental health and learning disability and autism services in east and west Suffolk.
In autumn 2020, we asked you what you thought of those plans.
In addition to the information available on the main service pages, we’ve collated a little extra detail for those who work in healthcare, social care and education.
We’ve also compiled a list of frequently asked questions for our workforce.
The survey is now closed, but you can still use these pages to learn about the current plans. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us:
Email: wsh-tr.mhprogrammeteam@nhs.net
Phone number: 0800 389 6819
From November 2020, once we’ve heard what everybody thinks, we will work with our co-production partners to see if we need to adapt the plans and make changes. We’ll then let you know what changes have been made as a result of the feedback we received. This will be early 2021.
The next stage will be to take these plans and make them a reality for service users, carers and staff. This will all take some time. The new Learning Disabilities and Autism Services will start to become available from April 2021. The Children’s, young people’s and families mental health services, Community mental health services and Crisis mental health services will become available a little later, from summer 2021.
Our priority areas:
- Children, young people and families’ mental health services
- Community mental health services
- Crisis mental health services
- Learning disabilities and autism services
A video message from Daniel Dalton
Daniel Dalton is the Chief Medical Officer for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
View this video full-size on Vimeo or read the transcript.
Sharing this information with colleagues
We’ve put together an information pack that explains the Suffolk Alliance Mental Health Transformation Programme.
Please feel free to share this resource digitally or print a copy for your workplace.
If you’d like to present this information to colleagues, please email us at wsh-tr.mhprogrammeteam@nhs.net and we’ll send you the pack as a PowerPoint presentation.
Children, young people and families’ mental health services
Children, young people and families’ pathways
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Beth Mosley’s video message for our workforce
Beth is an educational psychologist based at Thurston Community College. She works for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
View this video full-size on Vimeo or read the full transcript.
Anne Humphrys video message for our workforce
Anne is co-chair of the Suffolk Parent Carer Network. As part of our project team, Anne has helped facilitate conversations with parents and carers in Suffolk.
View this video full-size on Vimeo or read the full transcript.
The following information is available on the children, young people and families’ mental health services main page:
- Animated video which explains the changes
- Conversations that have happened so far, and what you’ve told us
- Who we’ve worked with
- What the new services will look like
- Video messages from our project team explaining the plans
- A video from a young person sharing their experiences
As well as a list of frequently asked questions for our workforce.
You can also watch the Q&A below:
Community mental health services
Community Pathways
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James-Nilsen Clarke’s message for our workforce
James Nilsen-Clarke is a member of the project team. He works for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
Watch this video full-size on Vimeo or read the full transcript.
Dr Rosalind Tandy’s message for our workforce
Dr Rosalind Tandy is a GP in Haverhill, and is clinical lead for mental health with the West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group.
Watch this video full-size on Vimeo or read the full transcript.
Community model information
Read more information about the Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Team.
The following information is available on the children, young people and families’ mental health services main page:
- Animated video which explains the changes
- What we’re hoping to achieve with the new service
- Who we’ve worked with
- What the new services will look like
- Video messages from our project team explaining the plans
As well as a list of frequently asked questions for our workforce.
You can also watch the Q&A below:
Crisis mental health services
Crisis Pathways
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Emma Reader’s message for our workforce
Emma Reader works for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. In this video, she talks about the vision for the Crisis Service, and how it might affect people living in Suffolk.
View this video full-size on Vimeo or read the transcript.
The following information is available on the Crisis mental health services main page:
- Animated video which explains the changes
- What we’re hoping to achieve with the new service
- Who we’ve worked with
- What the new services will look like
- Video messages from our project team explaining the plans
As well as a list of frequently asked questions for our workforce.
You can also watch the Q&A below:
Learning disabilities and autism services
In 2018, a pioneering engagement process took place to develop a Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy #averydifferentconversation for the future of Suffolk.
As part of this we talked with Suffolk residents about what they think their learning disability and autism services should look like.
Since then, the Suffolk Mental Health Alliance health and care partners have been busy working together to develop four key models which are compliant with the national service specifications.
These are:
- Inpatient care
- Intensive Support Team
- Learning Disability Specialist Community Team
- Forensic Support
Earlier on in 2020, the Learning Disability & Autism project team ran a number of engagement events with the workforce and service users to enable these models to be tested and to support the finer developmental detail. A lot of feedback was received and thank you to all those who attended and took part. A lot of the comments received were operational detail and will be used to develop the service specifications for each service over the next few months.
Learning disabilities and autism Pathways
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Wendy Scott’s video message for our workforce
Wendy Scott is a member of the Learning Disabilities and Autism Services project team. In this video, she discusses the changes we have planned for the service.
View this video full-size on Vimeo or read the transcript.
The following information is available on the Learning Disabilities and Autism services main page:
- Animated video which explains the changes
- What we’re hoping to achieve with the new service
- Who we’ve worked with
- What the new services will look like
- An example of how the service will work in the real world
- A video message from a project team member discussing the plans
As well as a list of frequently asked questions for our workforce.
