Service Users and Carers

Service Users and Carers

2gether NHS Foundation Trust for Gloucestershire values the experience and expertise of Service Users and Carers and wants to strengthen the Service User/Carer voice in the planning, delivery and evaluation of mental health and learning disability services.

Getting Involved - What Can I Do?

By giving the Trust the benefit of your knowledge, skills and experience, you can help the Trust deliver services that meet the needs of those people who use them. There are opportunities to influence service delivery and development by involvement in: -

What is Expected of Me?

As part of committee meetings, planning groups and workshops there is an expectation that:

What Can I Expect?

Getting Involved is about you bringing your ideas about what you think is important for specialist mental health, substance misuse and learning disability services in Gloucestershire.

If you would like to talk to someone about getting involved please contact the Service User or Carer Participation Workers on 891612 or email kathy.holmes@glos.nhs.uk


Getting Involved Newsletters and Publications

Carers Information Pack


Who is the Pack For?

The Information pack is for relatives, partners or friends who provide support to people with mental illness.

Why Has it Been Developed?

People caring for someone with mental illness rarely consider themselves to be carers. This often means that they do not receive or ask for the help and support they need.

Carers are in fact people who out of a sense of love, duty and compassion, struggle to live their own lives and at the same time do their best to help a family member of friend.

People who care for someone with mental illness play a valuable role in promoting their recovery.

One of the things expressed constantly by carers is that information to support them in their caring role is not easily available. This information pack has been written in consulation with trust staff, local carers and carers groups to act as a guide to services provided by 2gether NHS Foundation Trust to people with mental illness and to provide carers with the information they need to support them in their caring role. The pack contains information on mental illnesses and treatments, carers assessments and benefits and where to go for further help.

How Do I Obtain a Carers Pack?

Ask a member of staff for a copy of the pack. If you are having difficulty getting a copy or the person you support is not receiving services from 2gether copies can be obtained by contacting:

Click here to view the Information Pack

Go to www.gripinitiative.org.uk to read about the experiences of Sharon, Jane and Alison who care for their sons who are currently recovering from first episode psychosis. They together with members of the GRIP (Gloucestershire Recovery in Psychosis) Team have complied a range of information for carers that compliments the information contained on this site.

New Government Guidelines on CPA

For more information on The care Programme New Government Guidelines on CPA click on links below for documents:

Refocusing the Care Programme Approach (Policy & Positive Policies Guidance)
Making the CPA Work fo You (Leaflet)
Making the CPA Work for You (Full Programme Brochure)

or Click here for link to DOH Publications Policy and Guidance

Who Can I Contact?

Kathy Holmes is the Carer Participation Worker for the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust. She can be contacted on 01452 891612 or by email kathy.holmes@glos.nhs.uk.

Useful Website Links

 

Trust Headquarters, Rikenel, Montpellier, Gloucester GL1 1LY
Tel: 01452 891000 Fax: 01452 891105 E-Mail