Service user involvement and co-production publications

The case for co-production
Charter and Guidelines for Partnership Working between Generic and Black and Minority Ethnic User/Survivor-led Organisations (TOOTS)
Dancing to our own tunes by Jayasree Kalathil
Making user involvement work by Peter Beresford
On our own terms by Jan Wallcraft
Strategies for living: user led research into strategies for living with mental distress
User involvement - a brief literature review by Alison Faulkner
Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health: Promoting Lasting Positive Change - A Consultation with Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health Service Users

Latest

How can organisations use the 4Pi Involvement Standards?

Meerat Kaur, Sandra Jayacodi, & Rachel Matthews talk us through how the 4Pi Involvement Standards for co-production were used to facilitate meaningful partnerships between service users, the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers.
African Health Policy Network and COVID-19

Maureen Ndawana, Community and Engagement Officer for the African Health Policy Network and coordinator of Ffena, tells us about how they have been able to keep their members connected with help from NSUN.
NSUN Members' Event and AGM 2020

We are delighted to invite you to our Members' Event and AGM 2020 on the 24th and 25th of November with keynote speakers, discussion sessions, and panels with guests including Rosie Tressler, Ursula Myrie, and Meg-John Barker.
SM Talking Circles and COVID-19

Jane Salazar, founder of SM Talking Circles, talks about her group for adults with selective mutism. They have been able to move online and start planning the use of non-verbal software for their group.

Peer Support: Working with the VCSE Sector

NSUN, AMHP and Mind have jointly produced a thought-piece outlining how voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations can meaningfully contribute to the provision of peer support in mental health; and offer practical examples of the diverse ways in which this is already happening.
Remote and Online Peer Support Resource

Over the past months, collaborative working has shown that we have shared experiences of what works. This resource, for anyone involved in providing peer support, outlines best practice, tips, and information about remote support, including the move back to face to face.
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Service User Involvement

Where to find advice on being paid for involvement opportunities without affecting ESA payments.
Members survey evaluation reports

Annual members survey analysis
Unlocking Service User Involvement Practice in Forensic Settings

NSUN commissioned WISH to conduct a review of involvement practice in forensic settings.
Values-based 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.
Healthy lives

Healthy Lives Project Improving physical health services for people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses
Service user involvement and co-production: the MARD project

Documents by the Making A Real Difference (MARD) project.
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 improving experiences of services and support.
Involvement and influencing documents

download documents about mental health service user and survivor involvement

Jobs and involvement opportunities

We are recruiting a Policy Officer to expand our focus on rights-based mental health policy that considers the impact of poverty, precarity, housing and employment on mental health.
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 improving experiences of services and support.
Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit - Open Letters

The UK government is hosting a Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit in London on the 9th and 10th of October, 2018. The Summit aims to “build momentum on global mental health issues such as early intervention, public health, research, tackling stigma, and promoting access to evidence-based services.”. Read the Open Letters to the Organisers, Partners and Delegates of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, London
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.
History

About the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) and the wider service user survivor movement. What we have achieved.
Join as a member

We are a user-led network of over 5000 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.
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
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.
Our vision

Our vision is for the lives of people who experience mental distress, discrimination and disadvantage to be better
The Principles of Peer Support Charter

A collaboration between statutory and voluntary sector organisations has facilitated the production of a peer led and produced Principles of Peer Support Charter.