Overview
Whether we use or work in health services, government policies directly affect us, but they are often complicated, and can be overwhelming and confusing: what are they addressing? Why are they taking this approach? How will they be implemented? What do they mean?
This webinar will discuss why policy is relevant for all of us, how we can get our head around the documents and where we can make a difference. Taking the recent ten-year plan as the first policy in this series, we will unpack why it is needed, how it heralds reform rather than mere adjustments, what it proposes and what opportunities and challenges it contains.
What to Expect:
If you want to understand the Ten-Year Plan in more detail, ask particular questions, or get into a debate about how it can possibly be implemented, this webinar will be of interest to you.
Julie (CEO at Imroc) will begin with some tips on understanding policy in general, then take us through the plan, focusing in particular on what it means for people with mental health conditions and finishing with how Imroc can contribute to the successful delivery of the plan.
Elaine Hurll (Imroc’s Programme and Performance lead) will draw on her long experience as a commissioner to provide a very practical summary of the proposals, including what they mean for you in your locality. Half of the webinar time will be given to your questions and comments, so please bring your burning issues and share these either verbally or in the chat, we will open up the discussion to explore your questions and views.
Key Takeaways & Benefits of Attending:
Together we will reflect on and discuss:
Why policy is important, and how to begin understanding it
The 10-year plan – beginning with why health service reform is needed
Why the Plan is focusing on shifting from diagnosis and treatment to prediction and prevention
Why communities and neighbourhoods are key to its success
What happens next
How we can all make a difference
Presenters
Jullie Repper
Julie Repper is one of the founders of Imroc and has been CEO for ten years, supporting its development as a lived experience led charity working nationally and globally to drive forwards more Recovery focused practice and culture across whole systems. She brings her own experience of using services, working as a nurse, manager, lecturer, researcher and writing extensively on Recovery and social inclusion. Julie was director of one of the first Recovery Colleges and co-produced the first training for Peer support training in England.
Elaine Hurll
Is a newly appointed Programmes and Performance Lead at Imroc who brings nearly 20 years of experience of commissioning mental health services and prior to those 20 years (approximately) of working in either statutory mental health services or in the voluntary sector with an interest in homelessness. She brings a range of lived and learned experiences into her role at Imroc. She was one of the first Mental Health Commissioners to have project managed a coproduced mental health transformation programme from the design of the programme to the eventual implementation of a coproduced model of MH crisis care.
Emma Watson
Emma Watson is the programme lead at Imroc for Research, Evaluation, Publications and Development, and was the Peer Support Lead at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. As Peer Support Lead, she led the strategic introduction of peer support workers into a range of clinical services, establishing training and supervision processes to support this development. Prior to this, Emma worked in a number of peer roles, including peer support worker, peer supervisor, peer trainer and peer researcher. Emma was among the first peer workers to be employed in Nottingham NHS Trust in 2010; an experience which transformed her own recovery, as well as her understanding of the power of lived experience.
As a programme lead at Imroc, Emma aspires to centre lived experience perspectives in research and publications, and offer accessible, creative ways for knowledge to be developed and shared. She is leading on the development of an MSc in Lived Experience Leadership as well as overseeing Imroc’s research and evaluation projects. Emma's commitment to advancing peer support is further demonstrated through her extensive research publications. She has authored numerous articles, as well as co-authoring the book "Peer Support in Mental Health," which provides an in-depth exploration of peer support concepts and practices. Her PhD explored peer support in the context of an NHS service, especially how this context changes or constrains peer support, and how individual peer workers resist this process.