New Horizons: meeting the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities

1. New Horizons: meeting the mental health needs of peoplewith learning disabilities Including Everyone, Everywhere 9th December 2009

2. VALUING PEOPLE NOW WHAT DOES IT SAY?

3. Better Health • Overall policy objective: all people with learning disabilities get the healthcare and the support they need to live healthy lives. • Key issues for the NHS are: • achieving full inclusion of people with learning disabilities in its mainstream work on reducing health inequalities; and • ensuring high-quality evidence-based specialist health services.

4. Specialist and mental health services • People with learning disabilities are entitled to the support they require to access mainstream mental health services as set out in the national Service framework • Specialist services will help people with learning disabilities to access health professionals from mainstream health services.

5. New Horizons • WHAT • New Horizons is a new approach, which aims to: • improve the mental health and well-being of the population • improve the quality and accessibility of services for people with poor mental health • WHY • The national service framework for mental health, which has helped transform services over the last ten years, comes to an end in 2009. New Horizons is our way forward in England.

6. New Horizons • The guiding values that underpin New Horizons: • equality, justice and human rights • reaching our full potential • being in control of our lives • valuing relationships

7. A ‘round table’, not a hierarchy All equally important Key areas for action and intervention in the wider circle

8. Key messages • Early intervention • Early identification and treatment of mental health problems • Most successful interventions will be the result of effective multi agency working.

9. Key messages • Local agreement between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services on transitions

10. Key messages • Good Metal health promotion for all

11. Key messages • Timely, effective and accessible treatment. • High-quality, personalised care based on recoveryprinciples, whether in hospital or in the community.

12. Key messages • Improving the mental well-being and mental health care of older adults

13. Key elements for change • A clear cross government strategy • Local and national leadership • Evidence-based service models and approaches • Effective and resourced commissioning, both multi-agency and specialist • Information, monitoring and regulation and high-quality outcome measures • A skilled workforce.

14. Mental Health and People with a Learning Disability • “Greenlight” Toolkit

15. WHAT IS THE GREEN-LIGHT TOOLKIT? • A service improvement toolkit focusing on mental health services and supports for people with learning disabilities • A self-assessment tool used to ensure the National Service Framework for mental health meets the specific needs of, people with learning disabilities who experience mental health problems • Leading to the development of a local action plan for service improvement.

16. CQC Indicator set?

17. CQC Indicator set?

18. Annual Reports • Reporting on Mental Health Indicators • People with Learning Disability and Family Carers agreeing.

19. Making it happen • Leadership and delivery structures • Partnership boards • Better Commissioning • Developing the workforce • Measuring performance and data collection

20. Governance National Learning Disability Programme Board CQC Regional Learning Disability Programme Board Mental Health Trusts Local Learning Disability Partnership Board

21. Jo Poynter jo@vpst.co.uk