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Get into Reading New Group starting in Witney - find out more! OMHI, Advocacy and Oxfordshire Mental Health Matters Oxfordshire Mental Health Matters received the news this month that they didn’t win the tender to provide mental health advocacy services in Oxfordshire. From 1st April 2010, advocacy will instead be provided by South England Advocacy Projects (SEAP). We expect SEAP will be taking over the premises at Manzil Way and that several of the Mental Health Matters staff will be transferring to SEAP – all of which should help provide some valuable continuity of service. Separate from advocacy services Mental Health Matters have always run an information service in partnership with Mind. We have developed this together as the OMHI (Oxfordshire Mental Health Information) service including a phone line and dedicated website (www.omhi.org.uk). Given the changes at Mental Health Matters both organisations (and the Primary Care Trust who provide funding for OMHI) have agreed a plan for the OMHI Information service to be taken on and run by Mind. This means that Oxfordshire Mind will be taking full responsibility for OMHI including the information line and website from 1 April 2010. To help with this we are pleased to welcome Susan Weavers from Mental Health Matters who will be coming to work for Mind as an Information worker from the start of April. Director of Mental Health Matters, Jon Hyslop will also continue to be involved by giving supervision and support to the OMHI workers staffing the Information Line. We are very happy to welcome Susan to Mind. Susan and Jon’s continuing involvement will be a great help in ensuring we can continue to provide a high quality information service and continue to develop the service over the next 6 months. Mind IAPT Pilot – Evaluation Report For many years Oxfordshire Mind have run a programme of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Groups. The feedback from this service has always been very positive and it has given us a good understanding of how effective CBT can be in equipping people with skills and techniques to take greater control over their lives. All of this meant that when we started to hear about the ambitious plans for the ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) Programme we were very interested to see how the plans developed locally in Oxfordshire. We were also keen to be involved and believed that our experience and the skills of Mind workers would have a lot to contribute. During 2008 Mind worked with the Primary Care Trust (PCT) and set up the first ‘Step 2’ IAPT service in Oxfordshire. The Evaluation of this pilot project is now complete and can be downloaded here. There was a high demand for the service with 648 referrals in just over 4 months and the Evaluation indicates that the work made a significant difference to a great many patients referred by the participating GP practices. The credit for this achievement should go to the small team of Mind workers (Amanda Jarman, Sarah Sanderson, Laura Kerr Harnott, Amaryllis Roy & Stuart Dobinson) who have been out there doing the work. But tremendous thanks should also go to the Primary Care Trust and the 22 GP practices who have worked with us. The IAPT Programme has now moved on. The Step 2 Pilot has come to an end and plans are advanced for training up new workers and developing an IAPT service that will work across the whole county. The lessons of this Pilot will certainly be useful in this next stage. We hope you find this Evaluation Report interesting. A final comment from a participating GP … “The service has proved extremely useful. I think it stands a chance of making a real difference to mental health management. I am very disappointed that the pilot time has already come to an end and I would be very keen to have such a service offered to my patients in the long term. It is one of the most positive innovations in primary care in along time. Please can we have it sustained”. Download the Mind IAPT Pilot Evaluation Report |
Contacts Main Office: 2 Kings Meadow Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0DP Tel: 01865 263730 Fax: 01865 263732 Email: info@oxfordshire -mind.org.uk Mental Health Information Line: 9.30am-4.30pm Mondays-Fridays (not public holidays) Tel: 01865 247788 |
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