With a strategic partner Citizens UK, the programme listened to over 6,000 people to develop four key priorities and a range of co-created solutions. 22 pledges were committed by the programme partners and a 2-year action plan was launched in November 2021. This plan is overseen by a Taskforce that meets monthly chaired by our Trust Ann Beasley CBE (Chair, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust) Sir Norman Lamb (Chair, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) and Venerable Dr Rosemarie Mallett (Bishop of Croydon), alongside community leaders and representatives from the NHS and local authority partners.

In January 2023, the South London Listens year one impact report was published setting out the partnership's significant progress that has been made in delivering on pledges made to our communities, as outlined at our Accountability Assembly on 10 October, World Mental Health Day 2022

Visit the South London Listens website for more news and developments.

South London Listens Action Plan

Our action plan has been co-produced with support from statutory, voluntary and community organisations.

Over the next two years between November 2021 - November 2023 we will deliver these actions as a partnership, helping to create a new blueprint for working together to build community resilience and improve mental health across south London.

To everyone involved in South London Listens so far, thank you.

What you have told us has shaped our four priorities.

Our four priorities

·       Priority one: Loneliness, social isolation and digital exclusion

·       Priority two: work and wages

·       Priority three: Children, young people and parental mental health

·       Priority four: Access to mental health services for migrants, refugees and diaspora communities

Be Well Champions Programme

The Champions programme will develop the capability and capacity of community and voluntary organisations to support the wellbeing of local people and to strengthen collaborations between health services and voluntary organisations. The programme is made up of three strands: 

Be Well Champions

Individuals embedded in an organisation who will receive special training to help those suffering from mental ill-health. They will receive training and supervisions - and report back on key themes and trends from their communities. Our first training was launched in January and we have now trained 40 people. 

Be Well Hubs

Working with leaders in organisations to develops safe spaces for local people to turn to when they feel their mental health is low or simply to feel more connected with their local community.

You can watch a video about the Hubs here or access a leaflet here.

Hubs in South West London

Kingston

•        Kingston Methodists
•        New Malden Methodists
•        Kingston Vale
•        Christ Church Surbiton Hill
•       St Andrews and St Marks Surbiton
•        Islamic Resource Centre
•        Kingston Carers Network

Merton

•        Mitcham Parish
•        Wimbledon College
•        YMCA
•        Merton Libraries (7 across the borough)

Wandsworth

•        St Michael's Wandsworth Common
•        St Mary's Battersea
•        Free2B
•        Balham Libraries

We are working to identify and train hubs in our other boroughs this year.

February 2021 

Remote consultations in mental health webinar - learning from evaluation in South London

COVID-19 turbo charged use of video consultations in clinical practice. This webinar is co-hosted with the Health Innovation Network (HIN), drawing on its research across South London into remote consultations and their impact. It takes place on Tuesday 9 March, from 12 to 1pm. More information:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remote-consultations-in-mental-health-learning-from-evaluation-tickets-139835452603

The event will cover areas including:

• Are remote consultation effective for staff and service users?
• What the evidence tells us from the HIN research
• The human factors influencing uptake and delivery
• How do we tackle digital exclusion?

It will feature clinicians, digital specialists, Lived Experience Practitioners, academic experts and others, aiming to help inform online clinical practice. HIN research details: 

https://healthinnovationnetwork.com/projects/remote-consultations-in-mental-health

January 2021

Provider Collaboratives Quality Start-Up Summit

Clinicians from Adult Eating Disorders, CAMHS and Forensic services - including the independent sector - came together to start developing quality monitoring, measuring and reporting standards and a framework for the new responsibilities and accountabilities for care quality SLP has taken on from NHSE Specialist Commissioning through Provider Collaboratives. 

December 2020

Provider Collaboratives Update

The SLP Trusts continue to deliver transformational patient care programmes together, for Forensic (Adult Secure), CAMHS (Tier 4) and Adult Eating Disorders (AED) specialist services, as Provider Collaboratives. Building on the innovation and partnership working of SLP New Care Models programmes, recent developments include:

• A new Single Point of Referral to SLP Trusts’ AED inpatient care to help ensure consistent, rapid and equal access to the right care, also benefiting referrers including commissioners and clinicians from outside South London
• Our Forensic programme is introducing innovative VR (Virtual Reality)-based technology enabling service users to be trained in motor vehicle repairs, supporting their future employability and return to the workplace.

November 2020

SLP Trusts take on major specialist commissioning budgets

More than £400 million commissioning budgets to develop and improve specialist services for local people were devolved to the SLP Trusts as our three new Provider Collaboratives (PCs) went live.

The ‘Fast Track’ SLP Provider Collaboratives for Forensic (Adult Secure), CAMHS (Tier 4) and Adult Eating Disorders represent three of just nine launched across England – highlighting the strength of our established partnership working, and putting us at the forefront of implementing new national NHS England policy.

The launch also reflects the impact of our joint Forensic and CAMHS New Care Models programmes, with the three Trusts working together in new ways to transform care, experience and outcomes for hundreds of patients. This partnership working culture - with a focus on improving patient outcomes - has enabled teams to deliver transformational changes, bringing care closer to home, in better environments, and fewer inpatient admissions.

The new policy and devolved budgets allow us to take decisions locally about how to develop and invest in services based on South London population health needs, through a clinically-led approach, with services co-designed with patients and partner organisations.

More about SLP Programmes

Clinical pathway programmes

https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/shared-forensic-pathways/

https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/forensics-central-referrals-hub/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/transforming-services-for-forensic-patients/

Nursing Development Programme

https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/nursing-development-programme/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/atlas_case_study/south-london-mental-health-and-community-partnership-slp-nursing-development-programme/

Nursing Times Workforce Award for Best Workplace for Learning and Development

Annual Review 2018-19

Annual Review 2017-18

Founding the SLP

Our three CEOs at the time explain some of the early aims and vision in coming together in as a partnership to collaborate in areas where we can improve care and outcomes by working at scale.

South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP)

We are part of a unique partnership of three South London mental health trusts, bringing together clinical expertise, experience and innovation to benefit patients.

Colleagues from Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust collaborate where we can improve quality, use resources most effectively – and provide better care, experience and outcomes for patients and staff – by working together.

Working collaboratively  and at scale across South London’s 3.6 million+ population means we can transform outcomes for people with specialist, sometimes complex, mental health conditions. We aim to be transformational in developing new ways of working; implement consistent best practice clinical pathways; and commission the right services to meet local population health needs.

Our Trusts’ clinicians, operational and corporate services teams; local, regional and national partners; and patients come together to co-design evidence-based approaches that deliver better care, closer to home for our communities. We aim to maximise value for the NHS, enabling reinvestment in enhanced and new specialist local and South London-wide services.

Major specialist areas of work where the three Trusts collaborate include:

• Forensic (Adult Secure) Provider Collaborative
• CAMHS (Tier 4) Provider Collaborative
• Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative
• Nursing Development Programme
• Complex Care Programme
• Corporate Services Programme

More information and latest SLP news here