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Early intervention

The national Early Intervention (EI) in psychosis programme is a 3 year service improvement programme jointly funded by the National Institute for Mental Health in England, part of the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), and Rethink.


UK Early Intervention Community: An update on a growing social movement delivering better life outcomes for young people

We have developed this resource for people working in health and social care, including those with a role to help improve Early Intervention services at CSIP and policy colleagues at the Health and Care Partnerships Directorate, Department of Health.

The resource aims to give people an overview of what the programme is about, why it is important, what it has achieved to date and how to get involved. Download it here (PDF 1.05 MB)

 

We developed this poster for the UK and international conferences on early psychosis 03-06 October 2006, ICC, Birmingham. Read more about the conference.

The poster provides an at a glance national perspective of the EIP programme and what it has achieved. Download it here (PDF 476KB)

We have also made a summary version of the poster available as an A5 flyer. Download it here (PDF 417KB)

Intended impacts

social movement

• via a shared value base summarised in the Early Psychosis Declaration

leadership/steer

• support local partnerships necessary to deliver service change to local communities
• profile and prioritise EI on national policy and non EI agendas
• ensure continuation and consolidation of investment in EI
• establish an international profile for EI development in the UK

sound infrastructure supporting EI implementation

• training availability, robust evidence base and practice guidance
• communication systems and frameworks established for practice exchange, research dissemination and training, leadership and advice

What has the EI voyage taught us?

Encourage others to see our EI flotilla:

• not as a PROBLEM demanding ever more scarce resources
• but as an ANSWER by demonstrating better use of resources

Use and harness three VECTORS of policy, research and service/practice development to keep the sails taut and move this EI sailing vessel forward

And our most important discovery…

• EI is not about a destination wherever this may take us…
• …it’s about acquiring A NEW MINDSET which challenges ‘treatment as usual’ by seeing and developing different ways of doing things.

Involving people

Involving people, particularly people who use services and carers, has been crucial in the success of the programme. This has helped to make sure that the programme is fit for purpose and focused on achieving its aims.

If you would like to get involved, we advise that, in addition to using this resource, you find someone who can help advise and support you. We have included a list of current EI contacts in CSIP.

We hope you find the resource helpful. It is part of a series of resources to share learning and promote innovative practice in EI services and participation in the growing EI social movement.

For more information

Jo Smith joda@lineone.net
David Shiers David.Shiers@csip.org.uk
Programme co-directors
Co-directors of the National EI Programme
NIMHE and Rethink
www.nimhe.csip.org.uk/ei
www.rethink.org

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