Public consultation events for Mental Health and Learning Disability Services

WEDNESDAY 16, AUGUST, 2017

Public consultation events for Mental Health and Learning Disability Services

Service users, carers, relatives and members of the public are encouraged to attend public information events to find out more about the Mental Health and Learning Disability Services programme and consultation.

People have been sharing their views during the first six weeks of the public consultation on proposals to move to a single site for General Adult Psychiatry (GAP) acute admissions at Carseview Centre in Dundee and a single site for Learning Disability (LD) services at Murray Royal Hospital in Perth. The option has already been presented to NHS Tayside committees, Tayside NHS Board, and Perth and Kinross, Dundee and Angus Integration Joint Boards.

The consultation will run until Wednesday 4 October 2017, during which time the programme team is gathering views and feedback from service users, carers, staff and members of the public. All views will be included in a final report with recommendations for the new service model, which will be presented back to the NHS Tayside and Integration Joint Boards before Perth & Kinross Integration Joint Board makes a final decision.

A series of public consultation events will be held across Tayside in September which will offer an opportunity to give views on the proposals.

Monday 4 September, 4-6pm, St Andrews Church, Hamilton Green, Arbroath

Tuesday 5 September, 2-5pm, Montrose YMCA, 98 Murray Street, Montrose

Thursday 7 September, 11am-2.30pm, Kirriemuir Town Hall, Reform Street, Kirriemuir

Monday 11 September, 2-6pm, Gannochy Suite, Dewars Centre, Glover Street, Perth

Tuesday 12 September, 11am-2.30pm, Strathearn Artspace, 6 Comrie Street, Crieff

Wednesday 13 September, 2-6pm, The Steeple, Nethergate, Dundee

Thursday 14 September, 2-5pm, Blairgowrie Town Hall, Brown Street, Blairgowrie

Monday 18 September, 11am-2pm, Pitlochry Town Hall, West Moulin Road, Pitlochry

Wednesday 20 September, 11am-2.30pm, Auchterarder Community Church, High Street, Auchterarder

Thursday 21 September, 11am-2.30pm, Loch Leven Community Campus, The Muirs, Kinross

Information about the proposed option and an online questionnaire are available on the consultation website www.taysidementalhealthredesign.scot.nhs.uk. People can also email mhldredesign.tayside@nhs.net, call Freephone 0800 7836 110 or write to Public Involvement, Tayside NHS Board, Freepost SCO 6181, Dundee, DD3 8ZR.

Launching the consultation, Chief Officer for Perth & Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership Robert Packham said, “People across Angus, Dundee, and Perth & Kinross have been sharing valuable feedback with us during the first half of the consultation period for mental health and learning disability services and these information events will be a further opportunity for people to have their voices heard.

“We would like to hear as many views as possible from people across Tayside and would encourage members of the public to take part in the consultation and give us their feedback on the proposed option.”

Background to the consultation

GAP acute admissions have been provided across three sites – Mulberry ward at the Susan Carnegie Centre in Angus, Moredun ward in Murray Royal Hospital, Perth, and two wards in the Carseview Centre in Dundee. LD services are currently based at Strathmartine and Carseview Centre. Advice from clinicians and professional leads is clear that the three-site model for GAP acute admission inpatient services is not sustainable and could pose a significant clinical risk to patients and staff.

The Mental Health and Learning Disability Services Redesign Transformation Programme has worked with service users, carers, staff and voluntary and third sector organisations from across Tayside to develop a long-term safe and sustainable model of care for adult mental health and learning disability inpatient services. In 2016, Tayside NHS Board asked the team to lead a series of engagement events to develop a range of options to provide GAP and LD services on one or two sites. The programme team carried out a detailed review of the necessary clinical, workforce and financial information for each of the top four options from these events which has now led to the identification of the preferred option.

Contact: NHS Tayside Communications, (01382) 424138, communications.tayside@nhs.net

16 August 2017