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Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

Discussion focusing on Mental Health Care within the Acute Trust environment. What does good look like?

This panel debate will explore the various models of community mental health care and discuss strategies for expanding these models to better serve diverse populations.

Key Subjects

• Introduction to Community Mental Health Care Models
• Overview of integrated care, peer support networks, and mobile crisis units.
• Assessment of effectiveness in meeting community needs, with a focus on underserved areas.
• Examination of benefits and challenges of different models.
• The role of community involvement and culturally competent care.
• Discussion on policy implications and funding mechanisms for model expansion.

Morning Break

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Patients with Severe mental Illness (SMI) present a real challenge to mental health services when it comes to meet their complex needs. There is a small group of SMI patients who are difficult to engage, which makes it harder to provide them with treatment they need. Recent tragic cases highlighted the importance of providing the appropriate service for this unfortunate group of patients to avoid serious harm to themselves and others.

The North Central London Vanguard is an innovative psychologically-led service that offers accessible, holistic wellbeing support to marginalised children and young people (CYP) affected by serious youth violence and offending. Our CYP co-produce and co-design this service at every level.

We deliver this as a multi-agency integrated and community approach to care in which our partnerships provide multi layered expertise to this cohort of young people.  Working in this way enables systemic changes.

The service is commissioned by NHS England (DoH) and co-produced in partnership with CYP, families, their communities, NHS, Local Authorities and the Voluntary Care Sector in Camden, Islington, Haringey, Enfield and Barnet. 

The service proactively engages deprived and excluded CYP who fall through the net of mainstream services to create positive health outcomes and seeks to re-address health and social inequalities contributing to vulnerability to poor mental health and offending.

Discussing my personal journey through the maze of the mental health system and now working to inform change in the system to be better for everyone involved.

Case Study - thymia

As 2025 becomes the "year of voice," the NHS faces a deluge of voice AI promises. But most will fail because they treat healthcare like call centers. Apollo represents a paradigm shift: the first QMS-certified speech biomarker platform that truly understands mental and physical health states, enabling intelligent triage, continuous monitoring, and personalized care pathways through regulated clinical voice AI.

Lunch and Networking

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

Programme leads Lesley Butterworth and Louise Whittaker discuss the evolution of the mental health response vehicle in the ambulance service, the role of their specialist paramedics and the partnerships they’ve developed.

This presentation is an example of work in Mental Health Transformation from a Commissioning Support Perspective. The presentation will focus on a project undertaken with 2 Local Authorities. The aim of this project was to provide recommendations for future commissioning of services for the prevention and early intervention of low-level mental health, eating disorders and self-harm for children and young people. The presentation will include how 3 strands of work (in -depth in person engagement, geospatial mapping and clinical effectiveness evidence review) were triangulated to produce localised evidence-based recommendations. 

This panel discussion will delve into the latest innovations and advancements in mental health, exploring how new approaches, technologies, and strategies are transforming mental health care. The session will bring together experts from various fields to share insights, experiences, and visions for the future of mental health.

Panellists:

• Anna Bokobza, Director of Strategy, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)
• Gurnak Singh Dosanjh (Confirmed)
• Jo Hillier Chief Clinical Information Officer, Sussex, Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)
• Paul Morris, Clinical lead, Mental Health, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)

Networking & Drinks

End of day