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Person centred approaches to care

Person centred approaches to care provide people with styles of personal care which allow them to make choices and take control of all aspects of their lives.

 

Being person centred is about listening to and learning about what people want from their lives and helping people to think about what they want now and in the future.

The Mental Health Foundation believes that service user involvement is essential for:

 

  • challenging discrimination

  • driving policy development

  • service improvements

  • broader community development.

 

Our policy work on person centred approaches to care focuses on:

 

  • development of our knowledge
  • thinking and approaches to recovery
  • advance directives
  • direct payments
  • care planning
  • positive risk taking and capacity versus consent

 

We aim to develop tools and interventions to support service users, carers, services and practitioners in this area.  These tools and interventions to lead to improved services and improved outcomes for those who use them. 

 

We are also building on the Guiding Lights project by offering to support services in improving service user involvement in care planning.  This will also feed into the new Care Programme Approach Guidance, which is expected in the autumn 2007.

 

We want you to have your say on policy work including person centred approaches to care. By providing your contact details, we will be able to:

 

  • inform you of which policy work subjects we are concentrating on

  • invite you to feed in your opinions and experiences to help inform our policy work

  • build up a database of people who are interested in contributing their views on policy and mental health

 

Complete the 'Have your say' online form

 

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