Events

Doing what works: implementing a successful Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service

for information on IPS training beign held at the Centre in December 2011 and March 2012, please Click here.

Psychological Therapies

24/25 November 2011, London

The 5th Annual New Savoy Partnership Conference will take place on the 24th and 25th November at Savoy Place in London. The New Savoy Partnership is a unique group of organisations working together to bring psychological therapies to the NHS and improve access for all who need them. It comprises professional bodies, charities (including Centre for Mental Health), service providers and welcomes other partners. Their mission is to ensure people of all ages and backgrounds who need psychological therapy have appropriate and timely support, delivered by therapists with the right skills, through the NHS.

The 2011 conference programme will focus on:

  • the e-mental health revolution and the NHS

  • talking therapies: A 4-year Action Plan

  • welfare to work via talking therapies

  • a better balance: NICE, evidence and talking therapies

Key speakers will include:

  • Secretary of State for Health

  • Professor Peter Kinderman

  • Lord David Freud

  • Sir Mike Rawlins

A full programme for the conference is available on the New Savoy Partnership website

Past Events

Employment for people experiencing mental health problems

This collaboration on 6 May 2009 between the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the NHS Confederation looked at how, with the negative effects of unemployment well known, there is a real need to challenge stigma and to support people with mental health problems into work.

You can download the presentations from the day below.

Morning overview (1,011 KB)

includes: Policy framework

  • Bob Grove, Director of Employment Programme, Centre for Mental Health
  • Ed Parks, Cabinet Office

The UK response

  • Professor Geoff Shepherd, Senior Policy Advisor, Centre for Mental Health

Implementing IPS in health and independent sector - an international perspective (online presentation)

  • Gary Bond, Chancellor's Professor of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

How to implement local based services using existing resources (204 KB)

  • Helen Lockett, Associate Director, Employment Programme, Centre for Mental Health
  • Andreas Ginkell, Chief Executive, St James's House - Jobs in Mind

Leading by Example - the NHS as an employer (65 KB)

  • Rachel Perkins, Director of Quality Assurance and User Experience, South West London & St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust
  • Josh Hardisty

Commissioning employment services - how to work with IAPT? (254 KB)

  • John Ellis, Head of Mental Health, Learning Disability and Substance Misuse Commissioning, NHS Cambridgeshire

The full conference programme is available on the NHS Confederation event website.

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