Safety and equality in mental health inpatient services programme

Safety and Equality in Mental Health Inpatient Services programme

The London SiMHS project sought to build on work already underway within Trusts and to add value through interventions that complement and through promoting inter-organisational learning and collaboration.
We have collaborated with the three London-based MH patient safety networks which are supporting QI projects in ward teams and the London PPN (psychological professions network)
Key focus was to address issues of violence and aggression in London’s acute mental health care services, to improve safety cultures and to strengthen staff skills, confidence and resilience
The project has successfully engaged a wide range of mental health staff and lived experience colleagues across London in collaborative learning and practice development.

To review current initiatives and approaches towards safety and equality within inpatient services, to share learning and to recommend quality improvement interventions
To standardise and improve best practice and make services safer and fairer for all who use these services and work in them.
To support service development through co-production, through training and development, and through quality improvement collaboratives