key seminar on mental health issues
"HOW BEST CAN WE DELIVER EXCELLENT JOINED-UP SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH BOTH SUBSTANCE MISUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES"
- DUAL DIAGNOSIS
- CO-MORBIDITY
- CO-EXISTENCE
- CO-OCCURRENCE
- RECOGNISING ACHIEVEMENTS
- LEARNING LESSONS
- MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER
Wednesday 24 February, 2010
The Queen's Hotel
Leeds
Contributors include:
Professor Louis Appleby
National Director for Mental Health in England, DH
Dr Peter Rice
Ministerial Working Group on Mental Health & Substance Misuse in Scotland
Phil Gormley
Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police
Tom Dodd
Dual Diagnosis Programme Lead, National Mental Health Development Unit
Luke Mitcheson
Clinical Psychologist, National Treatment Agency
Sue Baumgardt
Carer
Irene Campbell
Mental Health Regional Manager, Turning Point
Issues covered:
What can we expect from the Government’s forthcoming New Horizons mental health strategy?
How can we provide good quality services for people with dual diagnosis?
How can official guidelines provide frameworks for coordinated services for this very disadvantaged group?
How can multiple service providers collaborate to provide comprehensive care?
How can practitioner’s best recognize and refer dual diagnosis service users to appropriate care?
How can we embed joint working and sharing of expertise in operational procedures?
How can we enable people with a dual diagnosis improve access to treatments and services?
How can we create effective leadership, rigorous training and coordinated approaches?
How can we prevent service users falling between services?
How can we ensure care pathways are in place to facilitate transition between services?
How can ensure services do not adversely affect outcomes through misdiagnoses and inappropriate treatment?
What combination of incentives, relationships and measures can best deliver improved integration across sectors?
How can we reduce the negative outcomes, relapse, demoralization, disengagement and non-compliance?
How do we reduce homelessness, violent behavior, suicide, hospitalization, imprisonment and early mortality?
How can we stop people with dual diagnosis from being particularly vulnerable to social exclusion?
How can we reduce significant impact of associated risks on the carers/families and children?
Where can we hope to be in twelve years time?
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