Recovery

Recovery is an idea whose time has come. It provides a new rationale for mental health services and has radical implications for the design and operation of mental health services and partnerships between health, social services and third sector organizations.

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Peers as partners webinar with Prof. Geoff Shepherd

Geoff Shepherd recently held a webinar on Peers as partners: how England's Recovery Colleges are changing the culture for the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL).

You can view the presentation here and the accompanying recording of the webinar.

Recovery, personalisation and personal budgets

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Recovery and personalisation both challenge the current mental health system and require significant changes in the culture, practice and organisation of services.

This paper explores the links between recovery and personalisation and demonstrate how both are part of a common agenda for mental health system transformation.

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Our Recovery work

Having developed a framework by which organisations might become more recovery-orientated, we embarked on a project to test it with NMHDU and the NHS Confederation. The ImROC project ran until the end of 2012. For more details, see the project pages.