Psychological Therapies Implementation & Monitoring Group
Terms of Reference
June 2011
Introduction
The Scottish Government has a continuing commitment to improving the mental health of all
age groups and in improving the quality and availability of mental health services for those
who need them. We are therefore working collaboratively with NHS Boards and their partner
agencies towards the implementation of all policy relevant to Psychological Therapies,
including the Delivery of faster access to mental health services by delivering 18 week
referral to treatment for Psychological Therapies from December 2014.
The Psychological Therapies Implementation and Monitoring Group, a new group which has
been established to provide a focal point for this collaboration, will bring together key
stakeholders from a wide range of delivery and support settings to work closely with each
other and with the Scottish Government Mental Health Division.
What is the group for?
The Psychological Therapies Implementation and Monitoring Group is a Scottish
Government group which will be chaired by the Head of Mental Health or nominated deputy.
The broad purpose of this group will be to:
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Support Health Boards in the delivery of the Psychological Therapies HEAT target
Ensure that we are meeting existing commitments to deliver.
Monitoring change over time (using feedback from performance. measurement,
benchmarking and relevant other measurements of change)
Provide a forum to consider any questions on moving forward.
How will the group achieve this?
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By establishing and maintaining a focus on those areas which are most pertinent.
By ensuring that that work is properly coordinated and integrated.
By ensuring that all monitoring and improvement support work is properly informed by
expertise from clinicians and partners, from NHS managers, from information
specialists, and from quality assurance and improvement specialists.
By agreeing on additional actions which are deemed necessary to improve the
effectiveness of Psychological Therapies related monitoring and improvement support
work which is being led by the Scottish Government.
By the development of a shared understanding, through analysis of all the relevant
information, of the determinants of successful implementation and improvement, both
nationally and locally.
By agreeing on ways in which information being gathered can be made more
meaningful, more accurate and more useful.
By providing a context for an analysis of data.
By an analysis of data and sets of data.
What will be the key focus for the group?
The Psychological Therapies HEAT target to improve access to mental health services by
delivering an 18 week referral to treatment for psychological therapies from December 2014.
What are the parameters for this work?
The primary focus for the group is on areas of work being led by NHS Boards, specialist
psychology services and their partner organisations.
Where it has an impact on national Psychological Therapies policy implementation the group
will seek to identify where other policy agendas overlap and propose national solutions for
maximising the synergy from integrated service delivery.
Desired Outcomes
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The Scottish Government will have better intelligence about implementation
progress, both nationally and locally to enable support to be targeted to
where it is most needed.
The Scottish Government and its partners will have a better understanding of
some of the cause and effect relationships, inter-relationships and on other
key determinants of successful implementation and improvement.
There will be established and sustainable mechanisms in place for ensuring
that Psychological Therapies implementation and monitoring support
continues to be an effective component of the Psychological Therapies
improvement and change agenda.
Membership
Name
Geraldine Bienkowski
Mike Henderson
Linda Irvine
Kevin Power
Sheelagh Rodgers
Sean Docherty
Alastair Cook
Fiona McNeill
Fiona Black
Speciality
Lead for Psychological Therapies,
NHS Education for Scotland
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NHS
Borders
Strategic Programme Manager,
Mental Health and Wellbeing
NHS Lothian
Area Head of Service, Tayside
Psychological Therapies Service
Area Clinical Psychologist,
NHS Highland
Performance Assessment Manager
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
NHS Lanarkshire and Vice Chair of the
Royal College of Psychiatry
Head of Mental Health Renfrewshire
CHP
Mental Health Programme Manager
ISD
Jim Crighton
Director of Mental Health Services,
Ayrshire and Arran
TBC
Information Management
Gordon Johnstone
VOX
Scottish Government
Geoff Huggins, Chair Head of Reshaping Care and Mental Health Division
Penny Curtis, Deputy Head of Reshaping Care and Mental Health Division
Basil Haddad, Branch Head, Branch 2, Reshaping Care and Mental Health Division
( who will be taking over the responsibility for delivery of the target from July 2011)
Dr Moira Connolly, Psychiatric Advisor
Graham Monteith, CAMHS Advisor
Hugh Masters, Nursing and LD Advisor
Elaine Hunter, AHP Advisor
Ruth Glassborow, National Programme Manager, QuEST
Nicola Radley, Policy Officer, Reshaping Care & Mental Health Division