Sharing & Review of the Mental Health Vision, Values & Existing Service Model
“It's always best to start at the beginning.”
The first local target was devising the workforce plan to take to the Local Implementation team for approval and commitment. Although there was lots of guidance it was difficult to find examples of learning through example and best practice.
A plan was devised which was based on previous work done in the nineties around the closure of large psychiatric institutions and also work done by The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health in Kent. The publication 'A Mental Health Workforce for the Future' (Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health)