The Adult Secure Inpatient & Community Forensic Mental Health Services Priority Setting Partnership

'Recovery Bridge' drawing by Bryn

Shape future research in secure or forensic mental health settings

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Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) bring clinicians, patients and carers together to agree on the most important questions to answer with research.

This PSP will identify and prioritise uncertainties about assessment, treatment and clinical services along the forensic mental health pathway.

The aim of the PSP is to improve the experience and outcomes of people in secure inpatient and community forensic mental health settings, as well as their carers and families, including where they have also been victims. We want to drive research that will have practical impact in line with this aim.

The PSP is steered by a group of people with experience of secure mental health settings, family members and clinicians who you can read about here.

 

How will it work?

We are working with the James Lind Alliance (JLA), who have many years of experience in bringing together groups of people to make PSPs meaningful. The JLA will support a process of gathering ideas for questions that need answering, then checking what evidence already exists.

Questions that still need answering will then be prioritised with patients, carers and clinicians to produce a “top 10 list”. This can help drive future research, as people who fund research pay special attention to these lists.

The James Lind Alliance graphic

You can read the full protocol, aims and scope for our PSP here.

 

How can I take part?

The first survey to gather ideas is now open. You can read more about it and take part here.

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Who is funding the project?

The PSP is being supported by grants from the Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Seed Fund, the Corpus Christi College Small Grant Research Fund, Crime in Mind, and the NIHR East Midlands Regional Research Delivery Network.

 

Funders logos. Institute of Mental Health, University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Forensic Network, OPEN (Oxford Policy Engagement Network), Crime in Mind, NIHR, Oxford Policy Engagement Network

 

How can I find out more?

If you want more information, or to know how you could support the project in your area, please contact the PSP co-leads This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

 

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