Programme Start Date: 1st September 2004
Programme Planned end Date: 31st March 2010
Overall aim of the Programme:
A national EI programme facilitated those functions which can only be achieved at the national level or which may be best achieved through national co- ordination of regional activity
These functions include:
- Provide a national steer, identity, leadership and vision
- Carry out functions that may be best done at a national level
- To encourage collaborations between regions
Programme Overview
Established in 2004, the programme has provided development support for EI policy service implementation through:
- Nationally coordinated and regionally delivered work programme which aims to continuously integrate the 3 essential vectors of change- policy, research and practice development
- Value driven programme - articulated by the Early Psychosis Declaration endorsed by the WHO (2004); the experiences of young service users and their families are demonstrably at the heart of the work of the programme
- Credibility: programme leas are fully engaged and ‘visible' to the field
- Leadership: as leads we have been involved with EI for 12 years, for the ‘field' this provides authenticity which is respected locally, nationally and internationally together with a corresponding range of effective networks
- Provide topic expertise: providing advice vie regional EI leads to the local enquiries; Knowledge brokering (two way) rapidly and effectively connecting ‘field' with ‘centre'
- Established programme products: resource tools, factsheets, guidance, discussion papers, publications
- UK EI as International field leader
What did the programme deliver nationally?
- Knowledge Brokering
- EI Research
- Public Health
- Social Inclusion
- DRE
- Offender Health Application
- CAMHS Adult MH Service Transition
- Primary Care Support
- Acute Care Implementation
- Psychosis Care Pathway
Websites: www.nmhdu.org.uk; www.iris-initiative.org.uk