Healthy lives

Healthy Lives Project

Improving physical health services for people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses

This is a user-led study which the Healthy London Partnership mental health programme commissioned NSUN to undertake.

We asked:

What physical healthcare experiences do people with serious (enduring) mental illness diagnoses have?
What are their needs?
What improvements in commissioning and in services are needed?

You can download the full project description as well as the reports it produced:

Latest

The care programme approach - time to move on?

The Care Programme Approach (CPA) model is nearly 30 years old. Ideas about rehabilitation, service user involvement and recovery have undergone seismic changes during this time. This event will explore whether the life of the CPA come to a natural end.
Being the story

Being the Story is a an immersive storytelling day which gives a platform to extraordinary individuals with lived experiences who are creating change through their work.
Hertfordshire Partnership's Recovery Week

Hertfodshire Partnership Foundation Trust (HPFT) would like to welcome people using local services, carers, professionals and members of the public to join in events of learning and networking.
Peerfest 2018

This year, the annual celebration of peer support will be hosted by Thurrock Mind who came through as the chosen user-led peer support project to host Peerfest18

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence (APPG for PDD) is a cross-party parliamentary group dedicated to persuading government, government departments and relevant public and medical bodies to reduce the individual and social harms associated with the injudicious and over use of prescribed psychoactive medications.
Members survey evaluation reports

Annual members survey analysis
AGM reports

Annual General Meetings and member's events are held once a year.
Newsletter 'Network'

'Network' is published on paper and pdf
Unlocking Service User Involvement Practice in Forensic Settings

NSUN commissioned WISH to conduct a review of involvement practice in forensic settings.
Commissioning

NSUN seeks to improve service user involvement by supporting people with lived experience to gain proper input into the commissioning of services they use.
CQC Mental Health Act annual report advisory group

CQC are producing a Mental Health Act Annual Report and a 5 year plan & are taking a more inclusive approach. The purpose of the group is to provide expertise & experience to inform the approach & scope of the report, advise on themes & presentation & dissemination of the final report.
CPA and Recovery

This study was set up by the Mental Health Foundation, in partnership with NSUN, and was conducted by Dorothy Gould, the project lead, and Sarah Yiannoullou, NSUN’s Managing Director. The study explored how effective service users find the Care Programme Approach in promoting recovery as they understand it.
Involvement Workers

The service user involvement workers peer support and development group was established September 2009. This was in response to requests from members to provide support to people who are in a professional role as a direct result of their own personal mental health experiences.
Service user involvement and co-production: the MARD project

Documents by the Making A Real Difference (MARD) project.

Jobs and involvement opportunities

Jobs and other involvement opportunities that call upon your lived experience as a mental health survivor / service user / carer.
4Pi national involvement standards

Developed by people with lived experience as part of the National Involvement Partnership (NIP) project, the 4Pi National Standards ensure effective co-production, thus really improving experiences of services and support.
BME mental health service users launch manifesto

The Kindred Minds BME mental health service user led manifesto is a unique resource, has been written by BME mental health service users and has a comprehensive vision for the policy and practice changes needed to improve the mental well-being of BME mental health service users.
Survivor Researcher Network launch manifesto

Written by the Survivor Researcher Working Group, the SRN manifesto sets out the background and context to survivor and service user research and SRN's aims and values as a network
History

About the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) and the wider service user survivor movement. What we have achieved.
Alternatives to detention/sectioning under the Mental Health Act 1983. Can you help with suggestions?

As part of her work for the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, Dorothy Gould is trying to collect as many examples as possible of alternatives to detention/sectioning.
Join as a member

We are a ‘user led’ network of over 4500 individual and group members. Join us to find out what's happening across England to improve the experiences of people who need services and support when in distress. We aim to connect, inform and influence.
Our vision

Our vision is for the lives of people who experience mental distress, discrimination and disadvantage to be better
Campaigns

Our campaigns are based on the points prioritised in our Members' Manifesto. All of our work aims to take action to improve things for people who experience distress, discrimination and disadvantage.
But that would be a lie

Jessica Gallier writes about a series of events that followed her father's suicide and the way in which they affected a vulnerable, grieving family whilst doing nothing to prevent future deaths