On 2 February 2011 the ImROC project was formally announced within the context of the Mental Health Strategy, No health without mental health, by Andrew Lansley Secretary of State for Public Health, and Paul Burstow, Care Services Minister.
Rt Hon Andrew Lansley said, "We are putting the accent on Recovery as the goal for those in treatment".
Paul Burstow, Minister of State for Care Services said, "We have to aim higher, particularly when it comes to Recovery. There has been progress in recent years. Some organisations are doing fantastic work to help people reclaim their lives and meet their personal ambitions".
View the national Supporting Recovery press release.
The project aims to assist six demonstration sites, six pilot sites and 17 network members to improve the quality of their local services to support people more effectively to lead meaningful and productive lives (‘Recovery’). This project provides an opportunity to demonstrate an innovative approach to quality improvement and cultural change across organisations.
Demonstration Sites
Demonstration sites are organisations who have clearly made excellent progress in successfully embedding a recovery orientation at an organisational level and in making considerable organisation-wide progress across a substantial number of the key elements of recovery-focused practice. These organisations would not gain significant additional advantage from the intensive support offered to the pilot sites, but could benefit from support and attendance at a ‘learning set’ of their peers. These sites were also offered up to 10 days expert consultancy support to address any issues and build on existing positive practice.
The demonstration sites are:
All demonstration sites use the ImROC methodology in an ongoing process of assessment, goal setting, action planning and review and join a learning set with the pilot sites and learning set members. Read a description of ImROC demonstration sites produced by the Project Team during the baseline assessment process.
Find out more about ImROC.
Pilot Sites
The six pilot sites selected have made significant progress in developing some of the elements of high quality, recovery-focused practice and demonstrate a strong commitment to build on this and fully embed a recovery culture at an organisational level (although not to the same extent as the demonstration sites). Using the ImROC methodology, the Project Team will assist these sites to develop their recovery-oriented practice at strategic, operational and individual levels throughout their organisation and network. These sites will receive 20 days expert consultancy, 5 days peer training and development support, and membership at a learning set.
The pilot sites are:
Read a description of ImROC pilot sites produced by the Project Team during the baseline assessment process.
Membership of the Recovery Learning Network
15 sites who applied to be a pilot site and were invited to join a Recovery Learning Network. These sites have begun to implement recovery-focused practice, and started to address a number of challenges and/or demonstrate a degree of organisational commitment. Network members will undertake the process of assessment, goal setting, action planning and review.
Networks will meet at six learning sets over a two year period, members are entitled to send 6-8 people to each whole day themed workshops. Using a combination of key-note presentations from experts, workshops and presentations from member sites, these workshops will provide member sites with an opportunity to:
- share positive practice
- gain support and ideas from other sites facing similar challenges
- benefit from the guidance of project team members and other experts.
The sites were grouped into four networks, each led by a member of the expert project team. Learning networks began in May 2011 and will continue until December 2012.
Learning Set 1
31 May 2011
Learning Set 2
24 June 2011
Learning Set 3
30 June 2011
Learning Set 4
26 May 2011