Published on: 3rd February 2015
A team led by Sami Timimi has been selected by the Health Foundation, an independent health care charity, to be part of its new £3.5 million improvement programme - Scaling Up Improvement.
The Scaling Up Improvement programme is supporting seven health care projects in the UK with the aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own care through the delivery of successful health care improvement interventions at scale.
Our initiative will involve disseminating a whole service model, Outcomes Orientated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS), through working in partnership with eight other UK Child and Adolesent Mental Health teams in order to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, safety, patient-centredness and equitability of their services. Over the course of the programme each project team will take health care ideas, interventions and approaches that have been tested and shown to improve care at a small scale and deliver them at a larger scale.
Project lead, Professor Sami Timimi, “There is a quiet revolution taking place in the delivery of mental health care. For too long services have been operating using approaches that match treatment to diagnosis rather than tailoring treatment to each patient’s and families’ unique circumstances and choice. We are delighted that the Health Foundation has recognised our local service transformation project that builds on patient voice and choice, as an approach that is of national significance for improving the mental health care of young people”
The programme will run for two and a half years and each project will receive up to £500,000 of funding to support the implementation and evaluation of the work.
Dr Jane Jones, from the Health Foundation said, “We are very excited to be working with these seven outstanding project teams, who have been selected for the Scaling Up Improvement programme for their expertise in large scale and complex improvement/change projects.”
“Together we will aim to have real impact and make lasting improvements to the way health care is delivered, by testing out proven ideas at scale with the intention of these being widely adopted across the UK health service. LPFT will lead the “Disseminating the OO-CAMHS model across the UK” and will be working in partnership with the national learning collaboration Child Outcomes Research Consortium and an independent evaluation team from the University of Roehampton.
