Ceredigion Updates
Ceredigion has participated in a variety of consultation events and reviews over the year some of which have been facilitated by WWAMH: NHS restructuring; Wales Audit Office Baseline Review; Talk to Me, Suicide Prevention; Stronger in Partnership 2; Eating Disorders Framework and Service; Care Programme Approach; Secure Mental Health Services; LCO Mental Health Measure, National Dementia Plan; Mental Health Act; Mental Health Act; Ceredigion Emotional and Mental Health Promotion Action Plan.
A review of advocacy services took place across Hywel Dda . WWAMH Ceredigion facilitated a workshop in November for 16 people. Their views were fed into a central report. Service users were supported to be part of the specification team for the new tender. As yet the outcome of this process is unknown.
A new SLA for Mind Your Heart has been drawn up with assured funding until 2011. The Recovery Book and website are both available in Welsh.
The focus of the work this year has concentrated on supporting primary care staff to help improve the physical health of people with mental health problems and finding ways to support more use of the Recovery approach in Ceredigion. To find out more refer to the Mind Your Heart Report.
Over the past year the Service User Involvement Project has continued to make and nurture relationships with local users of mental health services and the providers of those services, both statutory and voluntary. There have been many developments and successes from meaningful involvement of service users on interview panels to participation in confidence classes and organisation of a conference. More detail is available later in this report.
A successful collaboration between Mind Your Heart and the Service User Involvement post took place during World Mental Health Week where service users created displays for 4 health centres in Ceredigion around the theme of recovery.
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