January 2012

We have been commissioned by the Social Inclusion Programme within NHS North East and the Department of Health Social Care Team to provide a service user and carer leadership development programme within the North East. This follows previous successful leadership development programmes, delivered and developed in partnership with Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust and Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust.  The programme aims to increase capacity and capability amongst service users and carers to ensure they are able to actively participate in the development, commissioning and monitoring of services.

December 2011

The North of England Mental Health Development Unit is supporting the Commerical Team in County Durham Primary Care Trust (PCT). As the PCT focus turns to contracts, we are providing some capacity from December 2011 up to the end of March 2012 to ensure that the NHS Operating Framework priorities for mental health continue to be delivered and that ongoing mental health projects continue to be delivered.

We are also in discussion with Clinical Commissioning Groups about the potential for completing options appraisals on areas of development around mental health and also with some organisations around facilitating some development time for teams and services.