Older People’s Mental Health and Dementia Commissioning Framework

The new Framework

Haringey Council and NHS Haringey have now published our commissioning framework, to provide strategic direction for the commissioning of mental health services across health and social care in Haringey.

We have worked together to write the Framework. Both organisations worked closely with people involved or interested in dementia and older people's mental health services, including Haringey Alzheimer's Society, users of services and their carers and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust, to produce this Framework.

The Framework is guided by the National Dementia Strategy (external link) and a number of other key publications and guidelines which set out the need for and ideas about how to develop good quality services. The Framework reviews how ready Haringey is to deliver these quality services and work to improve the mental health and well-being of people in Haringey. Where there are gaps recommendations for action to make improvements are made.

The full version of the Framework has a great deal of detail on services for people with dementia and older people with mental health problems and their carers is available in the attached files section below. A summary version is also available.

The Older People's Partnership Board signed off the framework on 15 December 2010.

A detailed delivery plan will be published in January 2011 to support the framework. The delivery plan sets out how we will achieve the recommendations in the framework.

The Lewis and Mary Haynes Trust

The project to produce a Commissioning Framework for people with dementia and Older People with Mental Health problems in Haringey was funded by the Lewis and Mary Haynes Trust.

How the Commissioning Framework was developed

A draft Commissioning Framework was written first. There was a wide consultation on the draft and changes were made to the final version as a result of the feedback from people who were involved in the consultation. A full report on the Consultation, what we did and what was changed in response to the feedback is available in the attached files section below.

We ran our consultation from June – September 2010, giving people who use services, their carers and other key stakeholders the opportunity to engage in the debate and influence the final Older People's Mental Health and Dementia Commissioning Framework. It was important for us to hear what our stakeholders think the Framework should say and what we should be doing to improve commissioning in the borough.

The consultation included meeting with:

• older people and their carers
• people with mental health problems and their carers
• people with learning disabilities and their carers
• staff.

We consulted through:

• a series of small events, linking in with existing forums and groups
• a questionnaire
• meetings with groups of staff, users and carers.

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