Turning Plans into Reality Sheena Cumiskey 5YFV MH SRO & Chief Executive Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV
All about effective collaboration with a purpose Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
Essential ingredients of collaboration • Common purpose • Common language – model is clinically led • Shared Knowledge • Shared timescales • Positive relationships Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
Perinatal MH is an example of this • NHS England launched opportunity to apply for national funding to develop specialist perinatal mental health services on 19th Aug Applications by 16 th Sep 2016 ie. 19 working days! • • Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV bid was successful – awarded £3.3m on 25 th Oct • Teams recruited and offering clinical sessions from mid April 2017 ie. 6 months from funding award to clinical delivery Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
How did we start? • NW Coast Perinatal Network in place since 2014 • Scoping document outlining perinatal MH baseline position already drafted • 3 Cheshire and Merseyside NHS MH providers already working collaboratively to develop MH chapter of STP • Brought clinicians together from each Trust to define pathways Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
What did we do? • Identified clinical lead and support enabling successful bid and project management • Ensured strong commitment from strategic staff in each MH Trust • Ensured good communication between all system partners • Worked with people with ‘Lived Experience’ • Drafted bid for one service - 3 MH teams to cover C&M geography (10 CCGs) Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
What did we achieve? • National funding award of £3.3m to develop a new community specialist perinatal service for C&M • Developed service identity and recruited staff in conjunction with people with lived experience • Momentum to deliver significant service improvement and improved outcomes for women and their families • Earlier diagnosis and intervention - women are supported to recover and fewer women and their infants suffer avoidable harm Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
Next steps All staff in post by end June 2017 Psychiatrists to continue to provide and record clinical activity Establishment of Primary Mental Health CPD Group to include colleagues in North Wales Local launch events for the service (June) Cheshire & Merseyside 5YFV Cheshire & Merseyside STP
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