'Applying Quality Improvement Science to Performance Challenges'
Welcome to the Home page of the Mental Health Collaborative
What has the Collaborative been set up to do?
The overall aim of the Mental Health Collaborative is to support NHS Boards to make the improvements needed to deliver against key national targets set out by the Scottish Government.
Specifically, the objectives are:
- To identify where the use of improvement methodologies and techniques will lead to improved performance, and to then work with NHS Boards and other key partners to ensure effective application
- Provide training for front line staff working in Mental Health services on the use of improvement methodologies
- To enable NHS Boards to use information effectively to support improvement
- To develop a culture of NHS Boards sharing information and knowledge about what works and what doesn't for improving mental health services
- To support the development of a culture of continuous improvement across mental health services in Scotland
What are the targets that Boards are working towards?
- To improve the quality of healthcare experienced
- To reduce the annual rate of increase of defined daily dose per capita of antidepressants to zero by 2009/10, and put in place the required support framework to achieve a 10 per cent reduction in future years
- Reduce the number of hospital readmissions (within one year for those that have had a psychiatric hospital admission of at least seven days by 10 per cent by the end of December 2009)
- To have achieved improvements in the early diagnosis and management of patients with dementia by 2011
How to get in contact with the Collaborative Team?
The Team is led by Ruth Glassborow (Mental Health National Programme Manager) and is divided into three regional teams. Team contact details are available within IST Contacts page.