Co-productionwill:
empowerbothstaffand patientstobecomecocreatorsinhealthservices
deliver an improved patient experience helps to improve identified health outcomes develop and grow patient strength and abilities and support them in co-creation of health recognise that a lived experience is essential for recovery-focused mental health services focus on cultural change through recoveryfocussed education and recovery-orientated practice.
place the individual at the heart of recovery and recognise the value of experinential knowledge
THE CO-PRODUCTION APPROACH
Co-production is an approach based upon dialogue. By working together groups of experts by experience and professionals can co-produce every stage of a project, with the focus being on improving service delivery
require a move away from the traditional 'us ' and 'them' divisions that have existed between individuals and practitioners and instead create a requires a collaborative approach that is based on equal but very different types of expertise and skill sharing.
'By role-modelling co-production, by working truly together, building trusting relationships with people who provide our care, we can enable change together... I am proof that co-production changes lives'
(Iris Benson MNE, Mersey Care Foundation Tust)
CO-PRODUCTION AS AN IDEA THAT UNDERPINS RECOVERY-FOCUSSED SERVICES
CO-PRODUCTION HAS PROVED TO WORK WELL WITHIN THE DELIVERY OF RECOVERYFOCUSSED EDUCATION PROGRAMMES
SIX DEFINING PRINCIPLES OF CO- PRODUCTION
THE PROCESS OF CO-PRODUCTION
The process of co-production can occur in many different ways and areas. To ensure co-production is effective, it is important to focus on the quality of the coproduction
FACTORS WHICH CAN IMPACT THIS INCLUDE:
Patients understanding of recovery and coproduction
The capacity for accessibility of the individual participants
HOW W FUTUR
enhancing and transferring the knowledge by engaging personal and peer networks
The quality of the relationship that exists between participants
The level of commitment of the various stakeholders.
WORKING TOGETHER
Co-productionwillbringnewways ofworkingandinteractingthatwill changeandchallengetraditional approaches.
Offers individuals who use services the opportunity to develop reciprocal relationships with each other and enter into mutual expectations and responsibilities blurring the distinctions that exist between professionals and the individual
BUILDING ON THE EXISTING CAPABILITIES INDIVIDUALS HAVE
activly supporting individuals to recognise and use their skills
PEER SUPPORT NETWORKSBREAKING DOWN BARRIERS FACILITATING RATHER THAN DELIVERING
Enabling professional staff to become the catalyst of change, instead of being the sole providers of the service
RECOGNISING INDIVIDUALS' ASSETS
transforming the idea that individuals are passive recipients of care
The relationship between the organisation and the patients by a new level of shared and equal responsibility.
Workng together in equal collaboration is a core activity for any co-production within mental health.
Co-production can be about loss as well as gain and can involve changes of power as a part of the process. As a results some participants could find it disruptive, risky or emotionally difficult.
Co production within mental health requires building trust and confidence between all those who are involved.
Thecontributionofpatientswillbe anessentialpartoftheworkof organisationsatentrylevel
It is about mutual respect, valuing all contributions equally and recognising that each individual has their own skills, assets and experiences that are valuable and necessary to the co-production process
Organisations will work in collaborative ad integrated ways with their patients to offer services that support them to achieve outcomes they identify as being important to them.
