How will we make a difference?
- Earlier this year we brought together 80+ colleagues and collaborators from health, social care, voluntary, charitable and housing organisations from across Newcastle for an ‘orientation’ session.
- This session set the scene for this important piece of work to radically rethink and transform mental health care and support in the City.
- A panel of representatives from the NHS, Council and voluntary sector presented the vision, answered questions and invited participants to join four ‘try and test’ groups being established to take this work forward in a collaborative way across the City.
- The try and test groups are centred around four areas of Newcastle:
- Central and East
- Inner West
- Outer West
- North
- This location-focussed approach will enable activity to be more responsive to the priorities and needs of local communities and will recognise the diversity across the City.
- This locality working also matches the approach of Children and Families Newcastle (another Collaborative Newcastle priority workstream) and is known as the 147 model – 1 Newcastle, 4 localities, 7 Primary care networks.
- The try and test groups will develop ideas and explore opportunities to trial a series of new activities, approaches or ways of working to improve mental health support for local communities.
- This approach means that together we can try new things, understand what works well and develop and improve as we learn.
- The four try and test groups have all identified areas of focus for their initial work.