Better Care
In South West London we are seeing more and more people who need urgent and acute mental health care, higher demand for community mental health services, and more people accessing our services in crisis or with more serious illnesses.
In line with the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS Community Mental Health Framework, our Better Care programme is focused on transforming local mental health services to support people to get help early, recover, and stay well in the community, closer to their friends and families.
That’s why, across our community services, children and young people’s services, inpatient wards and specialist services, we are transforming care to support more people to access the right care, at the right time, in the right place and ensure no-one stays in hospital longer than they need to. Co-production, co-design and collaboration are central to this. In the coming years we will continue to progress innovations that deliver better care across our clinical services, working hand-in-hand with patients, services users, the voluntary and community sector and other partners.