Mental Health Improvement Partnership (MHIP) Programme
This resource provides a variety of tools, techniques and information resources which help to effectively deliver an improvement programme.
The contents are the outcome of the Mental Health Improvement Partnership (MHIP) Programme, which was run with 4 pilot sites over a 3 year period. This programme aimed to improve the total quality of every service user's journey throughout the mental health system, by developing the capacity and skills of local care communities in order to make fundamental improvements in the way services are provided.
How to use this site
The site offers a choice of 2 approaches:
1. Step by step methodology.
This describes the approach taken by MHIP. The whole programme is divided in to 4 modules:
Module 1 - Setting up the programme
- Establishing leadership
- Establishing key roles and responsibilities
- Establishing governance arrangements
- Identifying drivers
- Identifying benefits
- Stakeholder analysis and engagement
- Programme planning
- Establishing aims and outcomes
- Establishing terms of reference for Steering Groups
- Communications strategy
- Collecting meaningful data
- Analysing data
- Developing a training strategy
- Maintaining engagement
- Implementation plans
- Maintaining momentum
- Ending the programme and celebrating success
2. Key themes
This approach describes key themes that were pivotal in the delivery of MHIP (drawn from the internal evaluation of MHIP).
Theme 1 - Partnership/partnering
Theme 2 - User and carer relations
Theme 4 - Organisational fitness
Theme 5 - Programme management (including resources, leadership and communications)
Theme 6 - Service improvement methodologies
Further information about MHIP and the 4 pilot sites can be gained by contacting the programme lead sarah.hankey@ssh-tr.nhs.uk