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Meaningful Involvement Involve to Evolve

• Myth Busters

User and Carer Involvement is difficult to do
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Meaningful Involvement Involve to Evolve

• Myth Busters

Right It can be, but if you think of involvement
as lots of varied, small and simple activities on
their own it need not be difficult
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Meaningful Involvement Involve to Evolve

• Myth Busters

It will all just be tokenistic
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Meaningful Involvement Involve to Evolve

• Myth Busters

Right You are never going to please everyone. On
the whole people respond reasonably when they are
given sufficient timely information to enable
them to understand the realities within which the
services function
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Meaningful Involvement Involve to Evolve

• Myth Busters

You only need to consult people if you are
making big changes to services
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Meaningful Involvement Involve to Evolve

• Myth Busters

Wrong Under new legislation you must involve
people in decision making on an ongoing basis-
not just where there is significant changes to
service
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• Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
  Strategy for User and Carer Involvement 2009-2012
  Making a difference through Involvement
• Strategic- where decisions are made about overall
  objectives and direction of the Trust
• Operational- how services are designed, delivered
  and monitored
• Individual- where decisions are made about a
  service an individual receives or the person who
  cares for them.

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• Our objectives are
• To Promote and embed an Involvement Culture
  across the organisation

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2. To ensure that all service users are as
involved in plans and decisions about their care
as they wish to be

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3. To ensure that every carer is involved in
plans and decisions about the service users as
directed by the services users wishes and good
practice

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4 . To ensure that service users and carers,
including the seldom heard are routinely involved
in service planning, delivery and evaluation

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5. To work with other partner agencies to
support service users and carer involvement and
ensure an appropriate and consistent approach for
service users and carers

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• Development of a User and Carer Bank
• Staff training in meaningful involvement
  delivered in partnership with service users and
  carers
• A Payment and Reimbursement policy
• Service users and carers involved in staff
  recruitment
• Local implementation plans across all service
  areas for involving users and carers
• Improve partnership work with wider community

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• We welcome your comments and look forward to
  your future involvement and partnership work
• Contact details
• Chris Minett
• Associate Director
• User Carer Involvement
• Coventry Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
• Wayside House
• Wilson Lane
• Coventry
• CV6 6NY
•   Telephone [phone]
• Mobile [phone]
• Email christine.minett_at_covwarkpt.nhs.uk
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