Putting Everyone First: making personalisation work for older people and mental health service users
Thursday 10th June, Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London
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Some people believe that the personalisation agenda, including individual or personal budgets, is not really deliverable for older people and for people with mental health problems. Concerns about risk and some people with mental ill health raise valid concerns that need to be addressed. The early individual budgets evaluation, which included very few older people in its research, raised questions about the extent to which older people wanted control over their services and budgets. More recent work has shown how both older people and people with mental health problems can and do want to be equal beneficiaries from the personalisation agenda.
This event aims to uncover some of the myths around personalisation for older people and those with mental ill health. It will show how health and local authorities can bring together the strategic and practical aspects of good commissioning in a way that delivers the government agenda around personalisation and really helps to change peoples' lives - particularly when co-production is taken seriously.
There will be the opportunity to hear first hand about when personalisation works, how it can change lives; and to take part in workshops on the latest DH guidance on how to practically make this happen.
Who should attend
- Mental Health and Older People's commissioners
- Senior Managers and Practioners
- All those involved in delivering mental health and older people's services.
The key themes running through this event are:
- Recent and new guidance on personalisation in both Older people and Mental health fields that has been developed by the NDTi for the Department of Health
- How will commissioning deliver the personalisation agenda, at strategic and operational levels.
- what co-production really means and how to make it happen
- How support planning and person-centred approaches are key to making personal budgets real
Cost: £:195 + VAT for statutory organisations
£:180 + VAT for voluntary organisations
Early bird discount of 10% for bookings before 30th March 2010.
Buy two fee-paying places and get one free for a mental health service user, carer or older person
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