This document outlines the high level work priorities for 2013-14 of the Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions West Midlands.
Download the SCN West Midlands workplan for 2013-14
Mental health
Mental health work priorities are to:
- Develop and support an outcomes-based approach to commissioning mental health services.
- Develop and test solutions to successfully deliver improved physical healthcare for people with a mental health problem.
- Consolidate the improvements in primary care mental health services (including IAPT) and explore opportunities to develop psychological therapy services for children closer to home.
- Explore pathways and services for people with neuro-developmental disorders in order improve patient experience and quality of services.
Anticipated outcomes include:
- Improved access to services which results in clinical improvement and recovery
- Reduced cost to the system and the economy as people recover more quickly from illness
- Increased patient choice and satisfaction
- Improvements in patient reported outcomes and recovery rates.
- Reduction in ‘excessive’ deaths for people with a serious mental health illness compared to people in the general population.
- Reduction in health inequalities within the region.
- Better management of long term comorbidities and medication.
- Improvements in patient, user and carer-reported experience.
- Improved quality of life for people with a mental illness.
Dementia
Dementia work priorities are to:
- Support increased prevention and timely diagnosis for people with dementia, including ensuring the availability of appropriate support before and after diagnosis.
- Translate strategy into tangible outcomes aimed at improving the experience of care for people diagnosed with dementia.
- Improve the experience of end of life care for people with dementia and their carers through the development of robust integrated pathways.
Anticipated outcomes include:
- An increase in people with dementia receiving a formal diagnosis.
- An increase in the proportion of people receiving a diagnosis when they are in the mild to mid stages of illness.
- Increase in the proportion of patients with dementia, having a full diagnostic assessment.
- An increase in the number of patients and carers who have a positive experience of health care services.
- An increase in the length of time people with dementia are cared for at home.
- Improvements in reported patient and carer experience.
- Reduction in dementia-related emergency admissions.
- Improved quality of life for people with dementia currently living in care homes.
Neurological conditions
Neuological conditions work priorities include:
- Develop and map the commissioning arrangements and the configuration of services across the West Midlands.
- Map the major condition pathways in order to capture the existing experience of patients, to include care integration.
- Build on the work of the West Midlands Quality Review Service by leading the implementation phase of the recent review of Neurological services.
Anticipated outcomes include:
- Better management of disease with more control for patient and family.
- Better adherence to and more appropriate use of, medication.
- Clear pathways for 3 long-term neurological conditions across the West Midlands.
- Reduction in length of stay associated with hospital admissions for the 3 neurological conditions.
- Improved quality of life for people with a long-term neurological condition.