Top Service Receiver Priorities for August 2010
09/10
As identified through the meetings Service Receiver Representatives attend.
Concerns about the delay of the opportunity to influence crisis services as a date for this workshop still hasn’t been set.
The cost, up to £12,000 a night, to open the 6 bedded 'Ward 101' at Royal Derby Hospital. The ward is a medical emergency ward, linked to Accident and Emergency (not specifically for mental health). Could this money be better spent addressing the pressures on A&E units?
Still concerns about the reduction in the number of Derby City Commissioning meetings and the reduction in mental health service receiver input into this organisation.
Confusion about the 'Personalisation', ‘Direct Payment’ and ‘self directed support’ plans, where mental health service receivers can access a personal budget to purchase their own health and social care services.
We are concerned that the planned Dual Diagnosis training to front line staff has been cut from 5 days to 2 days, without consultation of the service receivers that deliver parts of the training and sit on the Dual Diagnosis Strategic Group.
We are concerned about reports of the rise in numbers of Section 136’s being used in Derbyshire. (Section 136 is a power of detainment by the police when there are concerns about an individual’s mental health).
There have been reports about poor communication with service receivers about changes to their consultant and CPN’s (community psychiatric nurse) in the Amber Valley area since the redesign of adult mental health services.
There is a perceived increase in the number of discharges of patients from mental health services since the changes to adult services.
It has been reported that there has been a reduction in the usage of the Derby Day Hospital, we will be asking for further information on this.
There is a lot of uncertainty about the proposed changes to Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s) and health budgets and how this may affect services, we will closely follow this process of change and report any decision through the Derbyshire Voice Magazine.