We were very happy to hear that Health Education England has an ambition to double the number of Peer Support Workers in mental health as we believe that peer support is such an important part of early intervention in psychosis. EIP teams in the South of England have grown their peer support workforce from 5 to 26 in the last …
EIP Race Equality Project
Introduction People from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to access community mental health services but are over represented in acute and more restrictive settings[1]. Their experience of services mirrors that of staff from ethnic minority groups: it is often more negative than their white counterparts and many of them report that they have never been asked about what impact …
EIP Workforce Innovation & Development
Workforce is one of the biggest risks to delivering the ambitions of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. As such, you will not be surprised to hear that we have spent a fair amount of our time exploring a range of scenarios and options with clinicians, managers and commissioners. At the same time, Health Education England have …
South Region Early Intervention in Psychosis Annual Report
Early Intervention in Psychosis Annual Report 2015-16 Waiting times and access standards can be used to measure and improve services as well as identifying an expected standard of care. In physical health, the NHS Constitution guarantees patients’ right not to wait more than 18 weeks for consultant-led treatment, but mental health treatment has historically been excluded. For the first …
Sustaining Early Intervention in Psychosis Services
EIP Services Share Good Practice
Sharing Good Practice The South region has 32 EIP teams across 16 mental health providers and 50 commissioning groups. This offers ample opportunity to learn from each other and share the burden of solving problems. Chances are, any problem that one team is experiencing has already been tackled by another team. In January 2016, NHS England (South) put out …