Acute Care Forum

Have you been admitted to a ward on any of the mental health hospitals in Leicester over the past couple of years? Do you care for someone who has been admitted to one of them recently? Do you work in mental health? Do you have a view on mental health care? If so, you could have something important to contribute to the topics within the Mental Health Forum.

The purpose of the Acute Care Forum (Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland) is this:

To establish to enable the requirements of the National Service Framework for mental health (NSF) to be met.
To inform the development of the model of care as part of the Acute Mental Health In-patient Reprovision Project (AMHIRP), and work to implement those aspects of the model as resources allow.
To discuss and agree actions to the changing roles/functions, structures, methods of delivery, interventions and training that are being developed within an acute in-patient setting.
To gain early knowledge and contribute to the standards to be used by the Health Commission.
To network to all partners enabling good practice to be replicated.
To form positive relationships with the Regional Acute Care Forum.

As you will see above, the Acute Care Forum has an important role to play in improving the quality of care for those receiving acute mental health care. Any insight you might have about care and treatment would be particularly welcome.

Please go to the other pages in this section for more detail of what is currently being considered, what is happening in Forum meetings, and ways of making your contribution to the discussions.