| Title: |
Sharing wisdom: Integrated care – A work in progress |
| Authors: |
Piccone, Judith; Sanderson, Leonie; Moodie, Katherine; Kimber, Jeannine |
| Source: |
International Journal of Integrated Care; Vol. 18: APIC Conference Supplement 2017; 93 ; 1568-4156 |
| Publisher Information: |
Ubiquity Press |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Collection: |
International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) |
| Subject Terms: |
consumer/carer engagement; mental health; child and youth; participation and inclusion of consumers and carers in service co-design |
| Description: |
"No one has all the wisdomEveryone has some of the wisdomEveryone has a different piece"Mary Benet - McKinney (Sharing wisdom: A process for group decision making)An extended inpatient treatment facility for adolescents with severe and complex mental illness in Queensland (The Barrett Adolescent Centre) closed in 2014. In 2015, the Queensland Government established a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the closure of the facility with a final report provided to Government in 2016.The Government response to the COI Report committed to ensuring that effective and inclusive consultation arrangements would be put in place with stakeholders. Furthermore, it stated that Health Consumers Queensland would play an important role in supporting these consultation arrangements, and ensuring that a wide range of consumers and carers had a say in any future changes in service options for young people with severe and complex mental illness resulting from the implementation of the COI Report recommendations.As a result, Health Consumers Queensland (as the peak organisation representing the interests of health consumers and carers in Queensland) and the Queensland Department of Health through the Division of Clinical Excellence’s Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch (MHAODB) have been brought together as partners who have committed to transparency, collaboration and engagement processes that are safe and meaningful for young people and families.This was the impetus to consider stakeholder engagement strategy and use a range of methods to increase effective consumer and carer input and support. This has led to an unprecedented level of participation and inclusion of people with a lived experience of mental health services at all levels. The process of working in partnership has allowed a greater depth of creative and critical thinking to a degree not previously experienced by consumers and carers in the planning of mental health services.The 11 month timeline for the implementation phase of the Government response was ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/4081/4822 |
| DOI: |
10.5334/ijic.s1093 |
| Availability: |
https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/4081; https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.s1093 |
| Rights: |
Copyright (c) 2018 The Author(s) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.2BF4BB56 |
| Database: |
BASE |