Co-production is a way of health and social services being designed, managed and delivered by service users and professionals working together in partnership. A new textbook for nurses in training ‘Essentials of Mental Health Nursing’ has itself been co produced by involving student nurses and service users among its contributors. The chapter ‘Organisations and Settings for Mental Health Care’ features the Mental Fight Club as an example of best practice in the co-production of services. Chapter co-author Sarah Loughran is to present a copy of the book to them during an event celebrating coproduction at the Dragon Cafe, London SE1 1JA, at 7.00pm on Monday 18 June 2018.
PRESENTERS INVOLVED IN THE EVENT
Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health at University of Central Lancashire – editor of ‘Essentials of Mental Health Nursing’, Sarah Loughran, Staff Nurse at Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – student co-author of the chapter ‘Organisations and Settings for Mental Health Care’, Katharine Lazenby, Artist at Hospital Rooms – service user expert by experience, Joe Forster, President of Design In Mental Health Network – co-author of the chapter ‘Organisations and Settings for Mental Health Care’.
QUOTES
Quoted in the book, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (2013) describes coproduction as ‘… building on people’s existing capabilities to see them as assets and working together to achieve a mutual goal in an equal partnership’. On co-production in environmental design, Katharine Lazenby says ‘Those of us who have received mental health care have valuable insights and perspectives on how policies, plans and designs actually feel in practice’
NOTES TO EDITORS
Further information about the participants and their host organisations may be found on their respective web and social media pages or by contacting Joe Forster below. ‘Essentials of Mental Health Nursing’, published in the UK by Sage in 2018, is edited by Karen M Wright and Mick McKeown. Chapter 7 ‘Organisations and Settings for Mental Health Care’ is written by Joe Forster, Sarah Loughran, Rob MacDonald and Ian Callaghan.
Photographs of the participants are available on request from Joe Forster below, and
photographs of the presentation will be available on 19/6/18.
CONTACT
Joe Forster, email jforster@dimhn.org
