North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus is inviting people who use adult mental health services in the community to get involved in a new research project.
www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/LTQ The project, called Leading to Quality, will examine whether the leadership and culture of NHS staff teams affects quality of care.
The research project could bring benefits to people not only in North East Lincolnshire but across the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber as it involves NHS and social care staff, service users and carers across the whole region.
This research project will only be successful if it can gather the honest views and opinions of people who use mental health services and their carers. By getting involved in the project, service users and carers will be given an opportunity to describe their experiences and to help shape better mental healthcare.
Chris Payne, service manager for community mental health teams, said: “We want to speak to people in our community who are aged between 18 and 65 and receive NHS mental health care. We are also interested in speaking to carers. We want to hear people’s opinions and perceptions of the care received. Their views would be gathered either through a short interview or by completing a questionnaire.
“No member of the team involved in an individual’s healthcare provision would be present when they are asked to talk about their experiences of care. All the answers to the questionnaires are completed anonymously and it will be impossible to identify individual responses. Interviews would be carried out by trained health professionals. “
Anybody wishing to get involved or find out more can contact the Trust’s PALS team on (01472) 625222.
The Leading to Quality project is being led by the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and was commissioned by Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority. North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus is actively involved in the project and is looking to speak to local people who use mental health services about their experiences.
The research is being carried out by a team from the School of Management at the University of Bradford. They will try to find out if there is a link between the quality of care provided and the leadership and culture of the teams who provide the care.
It is hoped that the project will develop methods to help teams work effectively and so provide consistent and high quality care for local people. The research will also help develop methods of good team working that could apply to the whole NHS, so it could improve services across the whole country.
Full information about the project can be found at www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/LTQ