Connecting Community Mental Health Services

Connecting Community Mental Health Services
Birmingham City Football Club
Tue 23 Apr 2024

This innovative networking conference offered valuable insights into the development and implementation of integrated models of primary and community mental health care within the NHS. The day was packed full of engaging learning, national perspectives and peer-to-peer sharing. Attendees left fully prepared to navigate the next stages of community mental healthcare development.

With thanks to our industry partners:


Networking and planning: how to provide integrated, personalised, place-based coordinated care

Innovative Community Mental Health Services around the country are increasing access and bridging gaps in mental health care to boost recovery and improve outcomes for people living with severe mental illness (SMI). Attendees took one day out to attend this event and discovered how. Attending opened up the opportunity to meet and network with fellow colleagues, service providers and the wider community health network and focus on:

  • Innovative approaches to transform mental health to meet the needs of your population
  • How to collaborate with wider services to realise the potential for national change
  • The Relational and Emotional Strengthening Pathway: managing complex and emotional needs
  • How the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) integrates with wider teams
  • The wider network of support provisions provided through CMH services 
  • Boosting clinical skills when supporting clients with complex and emotional needs  
  • Strategies to co-ordinate effective communication between services to enable patient centred support

With thanks to our industry partners

SBK Healthcare would like to thank Limbic and Silver Cloud for sponsoring this unique forum.

8:45
Registration, refreshments and networking
9:30
Chair’s opening remarks
Stephen Skinner, Service Development Lead, Adult Mental Health Community Division, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Nick Harwood, Associate Director of Operations, Adult Mental Health Community Division, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Enabling transformation
9:45
Enabling Community Mental Health (CMH) Transformation to meet the needs of the population
  • Navigating the vision for national Community Mental Health transformation
  • Enabling a mental health workforce for a growing nation psychological service
  • Aligning NHS Talking Therapies services with plans for the Community Transformation
Dr Alison Brabban, Clinical Lead for Community Transformation, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust and National Clinical Advisor to AMH Programme, NHS England/Improvement
10:10
Questions and answers with your speakers
Industry collaborators
10:20
Clinical AI across the care pathway: Enhancing assessments and increasing patient engagement
  • How clinical AI tools can improve the quality of assessments, impact recovery rates, and increase patient engagement. From enhancing assessments with ADSM questionnaires to interactive homework activities, this session will show how AI can support your team across the care pathway.
Josh Cable-May, Clinical Lead, Limbic
10:30
How Digital is Supporting Integrated Primary Community Mental Health
Douglas Hiscock – Behavioural Health Lead, SilverCloud by Amwell
10:40
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:50
Roundtable discussion: How can we grow evidence for digital innovation in secondary care?
  • How do you use digital tools in your service? What feedback have you received from service users?
  • How can we ensure psychological safety whilst using digital tools?
In groups, based on your table, this is a great opportunity share your experiences and investigate the challenges.
11:05
Roundtable discussion feedback: How can we grow evidence for digital innovation in secondary care?
11:15
Networking break
Community Mental Health (CMH) Transformation
11:35
Integrated working in action: Inclusion Thurrock - Psychological Therapy Service (PTS)
  • Reducing the treatment gap between NHS TT and secondary care psychology services
  • Transforming local patient safety through increased mental health treatment access and efficacy
  • Providing new and integrated models of primary and secondary mental health support to improve recovery
Dr Richard Pione, Principal Clinical Psychologist and Dr Charlotte Irving-Curran, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Inclusion Thurrock part of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Community Rehabilitation
12:00
Case study: Developing our approach to community rehabilitation
Heather Barr Community Rehabilitation Service Manager, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Jacqui Dillon, National Chair, Hearing Voices Network in England, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, Visiting Research Fellow at The Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University
12:25
Questions and answers with your speakers
12:35
Lunchtime networking break
Pathway approaches for people with Complex Emotional Needs
1:45
Developing the Relational and Emotional Strengthening Pathway
  • Person centred care versus ‘set menu’ pathways and understanding a tiered system
  • Illustrating the CEN pathway and how to avoid single points of failure
  • Evaluating approaches and seeking alternative interventions for people with Complex Emotional Needs
Dr Mark Sampson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychological Lead for Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team (CERT), Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Reducing the treatment gap
2:10
Case study: Working towards the 4-week waiting standard for CMH services
  • Exploring our journey so far: how transformation was made a reality
  • Understanding policy intentions to improve access and meet demand
  • Where are we now? Strategies to achieve waiting list aspirations in our service
Nick Harwood, Associate Director of Operations and Stephen Skinner, Service Development Lead, Adult Mental Health Community Division, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
2:35
Questions and answers with your speakers
2:45
Networking break
3:05
Roundtable discussion: How can we enable collaborative practice in community mental health care
  • How can we improve collabroation with primary care networks?
  • What improvements has your service made to deliver patient centred care?
3:20
Roundtable discussion feedback: How can we enable collaborative practice in community mental health care
Connecting with Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
3:30
Integrating the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) scheme within CMH services
  • Understanding the IPS model for secondary mental health care
  • Accessing the IPS service, exploring the role of the Employment Specialist
  • Joint working with Community Health Services to support people with severe mental illness
Gareth Hayes, Regional Manager, IPS Grow and Paul Wilcox, Employment Services Coordinator for Mental Health, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
3:55
Questions and answers with your speakers
4:05
Drinks and canapes with Limbic
4:25
How AI is used for clinical decision support and engagement in Mental Health
  • Learn about how AI is being used to increase access, aid clinical decision-making at assessment, increase patient engagement and improve recovery. Join this co-production session where the presenters will seek to understand your pathways, and whether AI can support efficiencies in your clinical and admin teams.
Dr Charlotte Lee-Sinclair, Head of Commercial and Ravi Chauhan, Product Marketing Manager, Limbic
5:00
Chairs closing remarks followed by close of day
  • Please can you take the time throughout the day to complete your evaluation form? They will be collected during the drinks and canapes for one lucky person’s name to be drawn out to win the prize!

Stephen Skinner

Service Development Lead, Adult Mental Health Community Division
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Nick Harwood

Associate Director of Operations, Adult Mental Health Community Division
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Alison Brabban

Clinical Lead for Community Transformation
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Josh Cable-May

Clinical Lead
Limbic

Douglas Hiscock

Behavioural Health Lead
SilverCloud by Amwell

Dr Mark Sampson

Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychological Lead for Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team (CERT)
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Richard Pione

Principal Clinical Psychologist
Inclusion Thurrock part of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Charlotte Irving-Curran

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Inclusion Thurrock part of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Heather Barr

Community Rehabilitation Service Manager
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Jacqui Dillon

National Chair, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Visiting Research Fellow
Hearing Voices Network in England, University of East London and The Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University
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Paul Wilcox

Employment Services Coordinator for Mental Health (South Worcestershire)
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
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Gareth Hayes

Regional Manager
IPS Grow

Dr Charlotte Lee-Sinclair

Head of Commercial
Limbic

Ravi Chauhan

Product Marketing Manager
Limbic

Educational forums for mental health in the NHS

With over 15 years of educational forums for the NHS mental health, delivered in person and online, read how NHS professionals have previously described face-to-face Talking Therapies events:

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‘Well delivered and encouraging’
- HMP Brixton, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘A great networking experience between primary and secondary care’
- Vita Health Group, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘A great day, well organized. Excellent speakers, very informative and leaving me with lots to think about’
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Wellbeing Service, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘An inspirational and empowering day with opportunity for networking with like-minded professionals’
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘Very informative. I have taken a lot away to think about in terms of developing our service and improve the care of our service users’
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘Well organized, all interesting speakers and useful presentations’
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘Really informative and interesting to hear about all the innovative and positive change happening across the country’
- IPS Grow, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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Great content and excellent networking opportunity. Agenda was very tight’
- Ingeus Limited, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘Enjoyed the whole programme and variety of speakers across the whole spectrum of services and disciplines’
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, Connecting Community Mental Health Services, April 2024
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‘Very informative day. I’ve learnt lots about how other services operate and how to implement some of these ideas within my own service’
- Eastern Cheshire Talking Therapies, Talking Therapies Best Practice Forum, London, September 2023
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'I found the content useful and has given me a great deal of information I can share with my team’
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, London, September 2023
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‘Networking was an important part of the day and I was able to engage with many colleagues nationwide’
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Talking Therapies Best Practice Forum, London, September 2023
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‘It was very relevant to our service objectives. I gained some information about the national picture and enjoyed the content of the workshops; they were very informative and well led’
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Talking Therapies Best Practice Forum, London, April 2023
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‘It was helpful to learn from other services as to how they are managing challenges but also to hear that this is recognised nationally'
- Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, Talking Therapies Best Practice Forum, Manchester, April 2023
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‘Very informative and inspiring’
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Talking Therapies Best Practice Forum, Manchester, April 2023
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‘Highly recommended for both content and organisation’
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust’ IAPT Best Practice Forum, Birmingham, June 2022
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‘Helpful opportunity to get together with peers, consider roles and opportunities for growth!’
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, IAPT Best Practice Forum, Birmingham, June 2022
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‘Fabulous day with a nice balance of speakers, activities and networking breaks - well structured’
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, IAPT Best Practice Forum, Birmingham, June 2022

With thanks to the conference sponsors

Adding their unique perspectives, we were pleased to welcome our industry partners...


Limbic is the first UKCA-marked clinical assessment support tool for IAPT. Across 21 services, Limbic consistently frees up staff time, reduces costs, and improves patient experience and accessibility. Find out more from our founder, Dr Ross Harper on ross@limbic.ai.


A leading provider of evidence-based digital mental and behavioural healthcare solutions. Supporting 80% of NHS Talking Therapies Services, with up to 70% clinical recovery rates.

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