Mental Health SummitThemes of the Day

Empowering Lived Experience• Lived experience can drive change in mental

health care• Experts by experience can work alongside

professional expertise to promote wellbeing and recovery and improve service

• “Work with the people who have the problems, without them you cannot change your thinking”

• “Huge numbers of people with lived experience who would love to have training to become peer support workers”

Prevention

• The Abandoned Illness Report £8.1bn per year• The case for Perinatal Mental Health services• The case for Children and Young People’s Health

services• The case for Early Intervention in Psychosis

services

• “If I had had the help in my teens that I had in my thirties I would not have lost my twenties”

Integration• The need for whole system collaboration not competition• Multi-professional working Skill mix whole workforce

working across health, social and third sectors• Harnessing enthusiasm of service users with lived

experience to provide care

• “Is the underlying culture of all our organisations resistant to change?”

• “Unless we change the way we think we can never come up with solutions”

IT

• Solution or problem?• Lifeline for vulnerable young people or toxic?• NHS invested more money in IT than almost

another development• Causes more aggro than anything else• Nothing has greater potential to transform

services

Service Improvement

• If we wait for the system to sort everything out it will never happen

• The people who are going to shape the future of mental health in Wessex are in this room

• “We need to build in-house capacity for service improvement”

• “How can we invest in front line staff capability to improve their services”

TASK

Write down something very specific

that you are going to do differently following today’s summit to improve mental health and people’s experience of services in Wessex