SPEAKERS
Paul JenkinsChief Executive, Rethink Mental Illness
09:25
Paul Jenkins is Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, the leading national mental health membership charity, working to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.
We aim to make a practical and positive difference by providing hope and empowerment through effective services and support to all those who need us. We campaign for better services and are partners in 'Time to Change', the national programme to challenge stigma and discrimination in the area of mental health.
Paul, born in 1963, was previously Director of Service Development for NHS Direct. He has previously been involved in the implementation of a number of other major national government initiatives including the Next Steps Programme and the 1993 Community Care Reforms. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Paul was awarded an OBE in 2002 for his role in setting up NHS Direct.
He is a member of the Carers' Standing Commission.
Paul is married with two children and lives in Leeds. He is a passionate supporter of the Welsh Rugby Team.
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Dr Ian McPherson
We aim to make a practical and positive difference by providing hope and empowerment through effective services and support to all those who need us. We campaign for better services and are partners in 'Time to Change', the national programme to challenge stigma and discrimination in the area of mental health.
Paul, born in 1963, was previously Director of Service Development for NHS Direct. He has previously been involved in the implementation of a number of other major national government initiatives including the Next Steps Programme and the 1993 Community Care Reforms. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Paul was awarded an OBE in 2002 for his role in setting up NHS Direct.
He is a member of the Carers' Standing Commission.
Paul is married with two children and lives in Leeds. He is a passionate supporter of the Welsh Rugby Team.
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Chief Executive, The Mental Health Providers Forum
09:35
Currently Chief Executive of the Mental Health Providers Forum, Ian McPherson is a Clinical Psychologist by professional background, who worked as a practitioner, researcher and trainer, before moving into management in the NHS and on to policy implementation as Director of the National Institute for Mental Health in England, and then of the National Mental Health Development Unit. He is also a non-executive director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, a Trustee of the Centre for Mental Health and of the International Initiative in Mental Health Leadership.
Presentation: Raising the standards, quality and safety of mental health care
Voluntary sector mental health service providers have a crucial role to play in delivering a more integrated and social approach to care. Given the commissioning shake-up in the NHS, how should standards and outcomes be best measured?
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Andy Bell
Presentation: Raising the standards, quality and safety of mental health care
Voluntary sector mental health service providers have a crucial role to play in delivering a more integrated and social approach to care. Given the commissioning shake-up in the NHS, how should standards and outcomes be best measured?
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Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health
09:55
Andy Bell is Deputy Chief Executive at the Centre for Mental Health, an independent charity working to improve the life chances of people with mental health problems, where he has worked since 2002. He is co-chair of the Future Vision Coalition, a group of 11 national organisations coming together to influence mental health policy in England, and was chair of the Mental Health Alliance between 2006 and 2008. Andy previously worked as head of public affairs at the King's Fund.
Presentation: The challenges of implementing the mental health strategy
The mental health strategy set out an ambitious agenda for improving population mental health and the lives of people with mental health conditions. Implementing that vision in practice, however, is challenging against a background of spending restraint and public service reform. Shifting investment towards services that promote prevention, early intervention and recovery is crucial to the success of the strategy. This session will examine what opportunities exist to achieve this and the role of local and national bodies in supporting services to change.
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Dr Neil Deuchar
Presentation: The challenges of implementing the mental health strategy
The mental health strategy set out an ambitious agenda for improving population mental health and the lives of people with mental health conditions. Implementing that vision in practice, however, is challenging against a background of spending restraint and public service reform. Shifting investment towards services that promote prevention, early intervention and recovery is crucial to the success of the strategy. This session will examine what opportunities exist to achieve this and the role of local and national bodies in supporting services to change.
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Co-Chair The Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
10:15
Neil Deuchar is Associate Medical Director, NHS Midlands and East; Associate Registrar (Leadership and Management) and Commissioning Lead, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Mental Health Advisor, DH Right Care Programme, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. A consultant psychiatrist originally, Neil has undertaken medical directorships in both specialist mental health and strategic health authority settings.
Neil's portfolio has included patient safety; clinical effectiveness; leadership for quality; professional regulation; clinical configurations; information governance and coordination of research and innovation. Neil's particular managerial interests include the relationship of team function and culture to safety and effectiveness, spirituality and mindfulness in psychiatric practice and clinical management; revalidation; and mental capital and wellbeing as bases for healthy communities. Neil's clinical interests include holism in psychiatric practice; ethnicity; and early intervention in primary and specialist mental healthcare services. Neil's career has included a stint as a general practitioner as well as experience in journalism and media relations.
Presentation: Commissioning mental health
Not all GPs and local authorities feel adequately prepared to take on commissioning of mental health and wellbeing. To help support commissioning in the new NHS, the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCP-MH) brings together the Royal Colleges of Psychiatrists and General Practitioners along with patients and carers and several other key organisations to address concerns about the future of mental health services and issue jointly agreed guidance about commissioning.
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Yvonne Clarke
Neil's portfolio has included patient safety; clinical effectiveness; leadership for quality; professional regulation; clinical configurations; information governance and coordination of research and innovation. Neil's particular managerial interests include the relationship of team function and culture to safety and effectiveness, spirituality and mindfulness in psychiatric practice and clinical management; revalidation; and mental capital and wellbeing as bases for healthy communities. Neil's clinical interests include holism in psychiatric practice; ethnicity; and early intervention in primary and specialist mental healthcare services. Neil's career has included a stint as a general practitioner as well as experience in journalism and media relations.
Presentation: Commissioning mental health
Not all GPs and local authorities feel adequately prepared to take on commissioning of mental health and wellbeing. To help support commissioning in the new NHS, the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCP-MH) brings together the Royal Colleges of Psychiatrists and General Practitioners along with patients and carers and several other key organisations to address concerns about the future of mental health services and issue jointly agreed guidance about commissioning.
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Co-Managing Director, Pathways Community Interest Company
14:30
Yvonne Clarke is the Co-Managing Director of Pathways CIC and a founder member of the organisation.
Yvonne has worked for the NHS for 20 years. She was the Associate Director for Learning and Development at St George's Hospital in Stafford, Co-Director of Human Resources at Wolverhampton Health Care NHS Trust, and led the award-winning employment and health workstream for Wolverhampton Health Action Zone. Yvonne is passionate about supporting people who experience mental health problems to stay in control of their life by focusing support on recovery and building resilience in conjunction with treatment and management of symptoms.
She is particularly interested in:
• Helping people with mental health problems to look beyond mere survival and existence to regain a meaningful life
• Improving the functional health of people with comorbid physical and mental conditions
• Supporting people who have health conditions to find/be retained in employment
Presentation: The Journey of Change - Star Recovery Model in Action
The session reviews how Pathways CIC has engaged with diverse communities who have common mental health issues and at risk of increased health inequalities, to access non-stigmatised psycho-social support. The session will review how Pathways staff have used the star recovery model as a key working tool to enable clients to understand their recovery, and plot their progress.
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Paul Farmer
Yvonne has worked for the NHS for 20 years. She was the Associate Director for Learning and Development at St George's Hospital in Stafford, Co-Director of Human Resources at Wolverhampton Health Care NHS Trust, and led the award-winning employment and health workstream for Wolverhampton Health Action Zone. Yvonne is passionate about supporting people who experience mental health problems to stay in control of their life by focusing support on recovery and building resilience in conjunction with treatment and management of symptoms.
She is particularly interested in:
• Helping people with mental health problems to look beyond mere survival and existence to regain a meaningful life
• Improving the functional health of people with comorbid physical and mental conditions
• Supporting people who have health conditions to find/be retained in employment
Presentation: The Journey of Change - Star Recovery Model in Action
The session reviews how Pathways CIC has engaged with diverse communities who have common mental health issues and at risk of increased health inequalities, to access non-stigmatised psycho-social support. The session will review how Pathways staff have used the star recovery model as a key working tool to enable clients to understand their recovery, and plot their progress.
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Chief Executive Officer, Mind
14:50
Paul Farmer has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales, since May 2006.
Mind is the best-known mental health charity in England and Wales and is an influential voice on mental health issues. It was established in 1946 and has since grown into a major network with a turnover of over £30m centrally. There are over 160 independent and locally managed Mind associations providing over 1,300 local services in England and Wales, helping around 280,000 people every year with an additional turnover of around £99m.
Mind is a partner in the Time to Change campaign, the biggest ever campaign in England to tackle stigma and discrimination around mental health. Mind provides high-quality information, campaigns for equality for people with experience of mental distress and supports people to pursue their own goals and have a voice. User involvement is at the heart of its activities – over half of Mind's staff and two-thirds of its trustees have personal experience of mental distress. Current campaigns inlude Taking Care of Business, Listening to Experience.
Paul is a member of the NHS Futures Forum, and the Harrington Review of the Work Capability Assessment. He is Chair of the Disabilities Charities Consortium, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Health Talking Therapies Programme Board. He is also a member of the Centre for Social Justice Mental Health Inquiry and member of the BBC's Appeals Advisory Committee.
Before becoming Chief Executive of Mind, Paul was Director of Public Affairs for Rethink and was Chair of the Mental Health Alliance from 2001-2006.
Paul is a trustee at the Mental Health Providers Forum, an umbrella body for voluntary organisations supporting people with mental distress. He was a trustee for the Directory of Social Change, a campaigning voluntary organisation that provides the sector with training and publications.
Presentation: Overcoming stigma, discrimination and inequalities
Stigma and discrimination affects the opportunity for people suffering with mental health problems to live an ordinary life that most other people come to expect. Work, relationships and education are just examples of where this discrimination can manifest itself with devastating consequences. Time to Change is England's most ambitious campaign to eradicate such discrimination along with improving the wellbeing of the nation. What can we do to help?
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Steve Shrubb
Mind is the best-known mental health charity in England and Wales and is an influential voice on mental health issues. It was established in 1946 and has since grown into a major network with a turnover of over £30m centrally. There are over 160 independent and locally managed Mind associations providing over 1,300 local services in England and Wales, helping around 280,000 people every year with an additional turnover of around £99m.
Mind is a partner in the Time to Change campaign, the biggest ever campaign in England to tackle stigma and discrimination around mental health. Mind provides high-quality information, campaigns for equality for people with experience of mental distress and supports people to pursue their own goals and have a voice. User involvement is at the heart of its activities – over half of Mind's staff and two-thirds of its trustees have personal experience of mental distress. Current campaigns inlude Taking Care of Business, Listening to Experience.
Paul is a member of the NHS Futures Forum, and the Harrington Review of the Work Capability Assessment. He is Chair of the Disabilities Charities Consortium, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Health Talking Therapies Programme Board. He is also a member of the Centre for Social Justice Mental Health Inquiry and member of the BBC's Appeals Advisory Committee.
Before becoming Chief Executive of Mind, Paul was Director of Public Affairs for Rethink and was Chair of the Mental Health Alliance from 2001-2006.
Paul is a trustee at the Mental Health Providers Forum, an umbrella body for voluntary organisations supporting people with mental distress. He was a trustee for the Directory of Social Change, a campaigning voluntary organisation that provides the sector with training and publications.
Presentation: Overcoming stigma, discrimination and inequalities
Stigma and discrimination affects the opportunity for people suffering with mental health problems to live an ordinary life that most other people come to expect. Work, relationships and education are just examples of where this discrimination can manifest itself with devastating consequences. Time to Change is England's most ambitious campaign to eradicate such discrimination along with improving the wellbeing of the nation. What can we do to help?
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Director Mental Health Network, NHS Confederation
15:10
Steve Shrubb joined the NHS 30 years ago as a domestic/nursing assistant. He then went on to train as a nurse before training as a cognitive-behavioural therapist.
Steve has worked clinically in primary care and europsychiatry before going into management. He has been chief executive of two mental health trusts and has been Lead Director in the National Institute of Mental Health in England and Director of the North East, Yorkshire and Humber Development centre. Steve Shrubb has an excellent track record in working in partnership in developing services and supporting the implementation of policy. Steve places a high priority on working with service users to increase their influence on service delivery and improvement. He is particularly interested in the continuing challenge of combating stigma and discrimination, which so negatively affects the lives of people with mental health problems.
Presentation: There is no health without mental health: The importance of an integrated approach to physical and mental health care
Poor mental health is inextricably linked to physical health as those suffering with mental health problems are more at risk to long-term conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. It has also been shown that poor physical health lends itself to patients developing mental health issues as a result of living with such diseases, whilst good mental health can be a preventative factor to developing physical ailments. There is growing evidence that developing integrated approaches to physical and mental health problems improves outcomes and saves the NHS and the broader economy money.
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Sarah Brennan
Steve has worked clinically in primary care and europsychiatry before going into management. He has been chief executive of two mental health trusts and has been Lead Director in the National Institute of Mental Health in England and Director of the North East, Yorkshire and Humber Development centre. Steve Shrubb has an excellent track record in working in partnership in developing services and supporting the implementation of policy. Steve places a high priority on working with service users to increase their influence on service delivery and improvement. He is particularly interested in the continuing challenge of combating stigma and discrimination, which so negatively affects the lives of people with mental health problems.
Presentation: There is no health without mental health: The importance of an integrated approach to physical and mental health care
Poor mental health is inextricably linked to physical health as those suffering with mental health problems are more at risk to long-term conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. It has also been shown that poor physical health lends itself to patients developing mental health issues as a result of living with such diseases, whilst good mental health can be a preventative factor to developing physical ailments. There is growing evidence that developing integrated approaches to physical and mental health problems improves outcomes and saves the NHS and the broader economy money.
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Chief Executive, YoungMinds
15:30
Sarah Brennan joined YoungMinds as Chief Executive, the leading national charity promoting emotional wellbeing and mental health for children and young people, in May 2008. Sarah is passionate about young people and has over 25 years' experience championing their causes. With a career starting in youth and community work, teaching and youth counselling, Sarah has always worked in the third sector and is also interested in what makes effective organisations, gaining an MSc in Voluntary Sector Organisation at LSE in 1990. Sarah was Chief Executive of Motiv8, working with young offenders on the south coast for five years, and Director of Services at Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity where she worked for seven years. As a freelance management consultant she applied her experience and knowledge to interim chief executive positions, young people's services evaluation and development. With extensive experience as a trustee, as well as developing organisations and working with vulnerable young people, she is a qualified coach and also chairs the Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition.
Presentation: BOND; Better Outcomes through New Delivery
The importance of intervening early in children and young people's emerging mental health problems and emotional distress is emphasised in the government's new Mental Health Strategy. Voluntary sector organisations are recognised as those who can most effectively engage young people and deliver early interventions but for whom gaining contracts can be the most challenging. BOND; Better Outcomes through New Delivery is an ambitious national consortium programme supported by the DfE and led by YoungMinds, to address the most common barriers to being commissioned and develop a market ready sector. What are the key factors which will enable VCSO's to have effective commissioning relationships?
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Presentation: BOND; Better Outcomes through New Delivery
The importance of intervening early in children and young people's emerging mental health problems and emotional distress is emphasised in the government's new Mental Health Strategy. Voluntary sector organisations are recognised as those who can most effectively engage young people and deliver early interventions but for whom gaining contracts can be the most challenging. BOND; Better Outcomes through New Delivery is an ambitious national consortium programme supported by the DfE and led by YoungMinds, to address the most common barriers to being commissioned and develop a market ready sector. What are the key factors which will enable VCSO's to have effective commissioning relationships?
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