IMHIP06 - Annual Conference, 16th November, Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh

This conference celebrated the successes of the programme over the last five years. These include:

• Compiling a survey of national data streams in mental health with examples of the insights we can draw from each them.
• Publishing 48 editions of a monthly newsletter, which now reaches over 2000 subscribers.
• Developing two clinical datasets to support specialist mental health care: an Information Core for Integrated care that describes encounters, problems identified and interventions in community teams; and a Clinical Discharge Summary intended to smooth passage from inpatient psychiatric care back to community support.
• Exploring through workshops co-hosted with service user groups, what hopes and fears we have about electronic information collection and sharing, and how we must strike a careful balance between privacy protection and information to support joined-up care.

Full conference Report  184kb

Agenda (links to presentations)

09:30  Coffee/ Tea/ Registration

10:00  Welcome and Introduction

Information to support mental health care delivery

10:05 Case study from Paisley of how better information sharing is supporting better care
          Joanne Brooks and Helen Sandbach, NHS Glasgow and Clyde

10.20 Now we are five: see what we've done
          Alastair Philp, Programme Principal, iMHIP

10.40 New eHealth strategy - what does it mean for mental health
          Alan Hyslop, Scottish Executive

10.55  Discussion

11.10  Coffee and newtworking/ posters

Information to support the Scottish Mental Health Delivery Plan

11.40 Mental Health Delivery Plan - The need for information
          Alex McMahon, Scottish Executive

11.55 Information to allow benchmarking
          Shelah Dutta, National Benchmarking Project - presentation given by Alex McMahon

12.10  Questions and discussion ofthe proposed benchmarking indicators

Information to monitor the use of the New Mental Health Act

12.30 Improving the quality of information for monitoring the use of the Mental Health Act
          Rhian Hunter, Mental Welfare Commission

12.45  Questions and discussion

12.55  Lunch

Exploring persisting and perplexing isssues

13.45  Table talks x 15

• Structured data and free flowing text: experiences of the electronic notes system (Paragon) used at the Orchard clinic in Edinburgh.
• Outcome measurement
• User-defined outcomes: gathering service user feedback on mental health services in useful form
• Links to social care: what info needs to be collected and shared with health
• How to share information with non-statutory agencies
• Recovery-focus ? what information do we need
• What data to collect on what CAMHS do?
• Information to support services that help people with both mental health and substance misuse problems
• Information to support ICPs
• Sharing information with informal carers Information for needs assessment
• Information and data collection to support appropriate mental health service delivery for minority groups
• It?s our life: seeing information through the eyes of service users with dementia

14:45  Feedback from table-talks and further discussion

15:10 Mental health information: lessons from England
         Simon Pearson, National Information Lead and Strategic Client Manager, 
          Care Services Improvement Partnership, NHS in England                   

15:30  Finish (Tea available)