Mental Health services

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Devon Partnership Trust has agreed it’s objectives for 2009/10 with Torbay Care Trust.

Plans that will help to achieve these objectives in 2009/10 include:

Safe

• Extending the patient safety agenda across the Trust
• Investment in an electronic care record system
• Strengthening medicines management arrangements
• Reviewing older people’s services
• Developing the range of secure services available locally
• Ensuring all staff receive regular supervision, appraisal and training.

Sustainable

• Ensuring clinical, financial and environmental sustainability
• Encouraging openness and transparency at all times
• Developing skills and capability across the organisation
• Meeting national and local targets and financial plans
• Building strong, two-way relationships with stakeholders
• Being a responsible corporate citizen
• Promoting positive messages about mental health, learning disability and the work of the Trust.

Recovery-focused

• Using recovery coordination to assess and plan people’s care
• Extending the use and understanding of recovery standards and principles
• Working with partners to increase supported employment and accommodation
• Doing more to support and promote self-care for people
• Putting the notion of personal recovery at the heart of all the Trust says and does.

Timely

• Improving access to psychological (talking) therapies
• Increasing access to urgent care services
• Strengthening drug and alcohol services
• Providing earlier detection and intervention for people with dementia.

Personalised

• Involving people in their care and making sure everyone has an up-to-date recovery plan
• Eliminating mixed sex accommodation
• Working with partners to provide more joined-up care and treatment
• Delivering more services locally and reducing the need to travel outside the county.

Community based care is commissioned via Devon Partnership Trust and this includes residential care, home based support, and day care.

Other services purchased by Torbay Care trust include relationship counselling and  support, and advocacy services. Employment support services are also currently provided via PLUSS.

Learning Disability services

Specialist clinical services are provided by Devon Partnership Trust.(Please see above for information.)

The services Devon partnership Trust provide for people who have a learning disability include:

• In-patient units - providing inpatient care that includes short-term assessment and treatment, specialist provision for autism, and longer-term care.  These are consultant led.
• Specialist learning disability residential and nursing services, and contributing a significant number of staff to some similar services delivered by a partner housing association.
• Community team involvement of professions - including nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, consultant psychiatry, and psychology.
• Some associated services including therapeutic day time services and Additional Support Teams linked to community teams.

The services we commission must be underpinned by the values in “Valuing People now”

This has four key principles:

• Choice
• Independence
• Inclusion
• Rights

In addition a range of social care support is directly purchased by Torbay Care Trust which includes day opportunities, residential support, enhanced domiciliary care, employment support and advocacy support.

We also actively encourage individuals to have individual budgets to plan and pay for their own care and support. This can be arranged to buy both health and social care support in creative ways that meet the outcomes identified by individuals.