We’re ambitious in our aims to improve mental health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Hounslow.

We’re developing more inclusive services, with reasonable adjustments to support people with more complex needs, including those with learning disabilities and autism.

Our programme to transform local services over the next 3 years brings together:

  • Executive, clinical and management leaders
  • Commissioners of mental health services
  • People with lived experience, families, friends and carers
  • Local authorities and voluntary services.   

By working together, we aim to improve local mental health services significantly by:

  • Reducing inequalities in health and wellbeing inequalities and improving life expectancy for people with mental health conditions
  • Increasing access to the right treatment, at the right time, in the right place
  • Providing recovery-focused care when people need it.

We’re refocusing the way we provide mental health services so that people can access the care they need close to home.

 

Our plans include:

  • Introducing a new model of integrated community-based care to support people’s mental health needs with their social and physical health needs.  This is known as MINT  
  • Improving services for those with the most complex needs, including people diagnosed with personality disorder, those with eating disorders and those who need mental health rehabilitation
  • Continued focus on Improving Access to Psychology Therapies (IAPT) 
  • Better physical health checks and interventions for people with severe mental illness
  • Increasing access to individual placement support to help more people with severe mental illness to find and retain employment
  • Better tracking of access to psychological therapies for people with severe mental illness
  • Maintaining the rate of dementia diagnosis and improve post diagnostic care
  • Expanding the coverage of perinatal mental health services, rolling out new maternity outreach clinics
  • Expanding coverage of perinatal mental health services so that more women with mental health needs during pregnancy and the post-natal period can receive psychological support when needed, rolling out new models of Maternity Outreach Clinics.
     

Our plans include:

  • Developing a range of complementary and alternative options for crisis mental health care, such as crisis cafes/safe spaces, working with voluntary organisations and local community groups 
  • Ensuring there are liaison mental health team in all local emergency departments
  • Enabling mental health professionals to work in ambulance control rooms and integrated urgent care services and to provide on-the-scene response
  • Ensuring that there are no inappropriate out of area placements
  • Ensuring reasonable adjustments in crisis services for people with  learning disabilities and autism.

Our plans include:  

  • Providing a comprehensive service for 0-25 year olds including across the transition from child to adult mental health services
  • Ensuring provision of 24/7 crisis care which combines crisis assessment, brief response and home treatment
  • Aligning local plans for children and young people’s mental health with those for learning disabilities, autism, special educational needs and disability (SEND) and health and justice.

Our plans include:

  • Improving community services for people with learning disabilities or autism
  • Developing local adult inpatient services so that people are cared for nearer to home
  • Improving annual health checks
  • Ensuring the least restrictive practice in inpatient settings
  • Exploring employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autism
  • Greater involvement of local people with learning disabilities and their families in the co-design of services, so that we can respond more effectively to their needs across acute, community and mental  health services.