Would you like to be involved in how our services are delivered?

Involving patients, carers and families is crucial to ensure we hear the voices of those with lived experience of mental health issues. Your views are vital in helping us deliver our services, make changes to our services and act as a critical friend.

The Involvement Team help and support several involvement focus groups in the Trust and are always looking for new members to join these groups.

If you have lived experience of mental health issues or carer for someone with a mental health issue and would like to have a voice in how are services are delivered, please contact the Involvement Team for more details by emailing lpft.involvement@nhs.net

Adult Eating Disorders (AEDS) Involvement Group 

The Adult Eating Disorders (AEDS) Involvement Group is a space for staff, people with lived experience with an eating disorder or disordered eating, carers and family members to work together to monitor, advise, and improve future practice by discussing topics and gathering experiences. Including people who have used services, as well as families and carers is important to us. Your views are extremely valuable, and you are the best people to work with us ensuring care is at a high standard and meets and represents as many people’s needs as possible.  This group meets bi-monthly via MS Teams.

Older People and Dementia Stakeholder Group

The Older People and Dementia Stakeholder Group is represented by staff, stakeholders, patients and carers. The group meets to discuss service developments, challenges and successes.  There is also an opportunity for our stakeholders to highlight projects and events to get involved in.  This group meets bi-monthly via MS Teams.

Mental Health Liaison Steering (MHLS) Group 

The group was established in 2021 and meets monthly on a Tuesday afternoon via MS Teams. The group supports the Mental Health Liaison Service (MHLS) to help shape the direction of the service and examples of their work are a co-produced service leaflet and the design of a designated space in A&E to make it more welcoming and calming for those accessing it.

Multi Agency Discharge Event (MADE) 

This is an opportunity with the Rehab and Forensics Inpatients team who would like support with a new Multi-Agency Discharge Event (MADE). 

A Multi Agency Discharge Event (MADE) is a collaborative initiative where staff from hospitals, social care, community services, the voluntary sector and Experts by Experience work together to support patients who are clinically ready to be discharged but remain in hospital due to non-clinical barriers and challenges. 

The purpose of these events is to identify non-clinical barriers and challenges to patients being discharged, improve communication and accountability across organisations, support timely, safe and coordinated discharge planning and to focus on practical action and support to individuals leaving an inpatient environment. 

We would like to invite people with lived experience of staying on a mental health inpatient ward to join us in these meetings, to share their experiences of being discharged, what information and guidance would be useful and what community support is available. 

The meetings are held face to face bi-monthly at the Peter Hodgkinson Centre, Lincoln.

Website Review

We are going to be reviewing our public website to make it easier for people to navigate and find the information they need.  

As part of this work, we are creating an ongoing Task and Finish Group to influence and test improvements and provide regular feedback.  

We are inviting patients and carers to join this group and help shape the future of our website.  

There will also be a survey at a later stage. 

Expert by Experience Induction Training 

We are working together with the Lincolnshire Wellbeing and Recovery College to co-design and co-deliver our Expert by Experience Induction Training Course. 

We have developed a Task and Finish Group who have been working on the content and design of the course and will be meeting again on the 23 July 09:30 - 12:00 at Discovery House, Lincoln.