SUMMARY, NEXT STEPS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We hope you have enjoyed watching this educational production, that it has been useful and prompted your thinking further about how you can make a difference for people that use mental health services.
- Use the videos as educational tools
- Reflect on your own experience or your clinical practice
- What can you do to make things better?
- More work needs to be done on implementation.
- We need help from people who use services and clinicians to take the work forward
- There will be ongoing work to see how ACDs will work in practice
- It is important that ACDs are used widely including general practitioners, ambulance services and staff in A&E.
If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, please do contact us using the MS Forms link below or scan the QR code:
Click for Project Feedback Form
We will not be able to offer you a response but will be very interested in your thoughts as this can help us in the implementation and development process going forward.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This educational resource has been co-produced with the South London and Maudsley Recovery College, people who use services, clinicians, idependent mental health advocates, chaplains and researchers
- In the videos, actors took on the role of people who use services
- All names and clinical scenarios were developed for this resource and are not based on real situations
Our thanks go to the many stakeholders who helped in the production including:
- Health Education England who provided the funding
- SLaM Recovery College Peer Training Team
- The Trust Learning & Development Digital Learning Team
- SLAM Mental Health Law Project Manager
- IMHAs from Croydon MIND and Community Support Network
- SLaM Chaplaincy Service
- SLaM Clinical Staff
- Actors from the Baked Bean Company and Active Image Roleplay
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information can be found on the wider recommendations in the Mental Health Bill at the following links:
Draft Mental Health Bill 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Draft Mental Health Bill 2022 - Scrutiny Committee report - 19 January 2023
Mental Health Act Review - Mind
Estia Centre Publications and Resources available here
