Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council: Adult Social Care

Ambition: Access and Discharge routes into co-produced mental health services

Stockport Council with Pennine Care NHS Trust are redesigning mental health services to discharge people from specialist services through to supportive and welcoming community alternatives.

Through the development of local wellbeing centres, by enlisting the support of volunteers and peer support groups, and by giving people the use of personal budgets to direct their own recovery, many people  will go on to find support in non- clinical services after discharge.

These same opportunities, including a voluntary sector co-produced crisis service, extend options for GP referral providing an alternative to the Mental Health Trust for people experiencing mental distress and for people wishing to manage their difficulties and build resilience in a community setting. 

By bringing staff from the Trust and local user led organisations to work together in a team, the principles of co-production will inspire this project to transform people's lives. 

Recent developments include the launch of All Together Positive, a user led organisation and a peer support service to ensure that there are opportunities for people who are accessing or being discharged from mental health services to make use of coproduced services. 

Video blog

In this video, Nick Dixon gives an update on the Stockport People Powered Health project

This video details some of the work being done by the Stockport People Powered Health team looking at examples of co-production already happening in the area and how it could grow even further.

For more on the project download the detailed People Powered Health project summaries